Verbal Misunderstanding

What shall we wear?
British American
Trousers Pants
Pants underwear
Jumper sweater
Trainers sneakers
Dressing gown bathrobe
Tights pantyhose.

The opposites
The misunderstanding is worse when a word means the opposite in the two variants. One American author was distressed when his British publisher told him on the telephone that his latest book was a bomb in Britain. In America to ‘bomb’ – it is not normally used as a noun – is to flop.

Understatement and realism.
English statement American realism
I suppose this meat could This meat is as tough as perhaps be a little more tender. old boots
Our hotel room was not exactly the Ritz The room was awful.
His speech could have been a little more The was the dullest speech
interesting I’ve ever heard.