[DOC] [TLE] World Wide Words: Boot and trunk [PAR] Oct 28, 2014 ... American cars have 'trunks', British ones 'boots'. ... car (trunk in North American 
parlance) in British usage called a boot ... The latter word is a relic of 
stagecoaches, since early passenger ... (and father of the founder of 
Pennsylvania): We were forced to leap out  he out of one, and I out of the other 
boote. [DOC] [TLE] English subways have 'Cars', but English Surface Trains have ... [PAR] Jul 1, 2014 ... Carriage: Chiefly British, A railroad passenger car. Cars is the ... may refer to 
them as cars, but I would never call them anything but carriages. [DOC] [TLE] Separated by a Common Language: trucks and lorries [PAR] May 25, 2009 ... While/whilst this next vehicle would be called a van or a minivan in AmE, ..... or 
the mall, even though they do have regular passenger cars too. ... is an old-
fashioned word for what we (UK) would now call a removal van. Kate. [DOC] [TLE] Separated by a Common Language: bags, dibs, shotgun [PAR] Oct 12, 2010 ... but I'd be much more likely to say I've got dibs on it or I called dibs on that. ... ...but 
this usually is done as a sly reference to the childhood car-seat experience. ..... 
We have shotgun to mean calling the passenger seat in the UK. [DOC] [TLE] parts of trains trams and cable cars - synonyms and related words ... [PAR] Comprehensive list of synonyms for parts of trains trams and cable cars, by 
Macmillan ... British a chain or handle that a passenger can pull to make a train 
stop in an emergency. ... A man with magic powers is usually called a wizard. [DOC] [TLE] Sedan (automobile) - Wikipedia [PAR] A sedan /sdn or saloon (British and Irish English) is a passenger car in a 
three-box .... A vehicle with four passenger doors and a liftgate at the rear can be 
called a four-door hatchback, five-door hatchback, four-door hatchback sedan,... [DOC] [TLE] List of words having different meanings in American and British ... [PAR] This is the list of words having different meanings in British and American .... 
when applied to hair, esp. that of persons of African descent (also called napped) 
... panda, (panda car) police car (slang) (US: zebra, black-and-white), Type of ..... 
passengers' lounge on a liner or luxury train (US approx. ..... "Oh man, we're toast
!"). [DOC] [TLE] British Slang: 48 British Words For Driving That You May Not Know ... [PAR] Apr 14, 2014 ... Manual gearbox  n  A manual transmission on a car. .... Does anyone know 
why the British call it a lorry and we call it a truck? .... Registration is a small disc 
mounted on the inside of the windscreen on the passenger's side. [DOC] [TLE] Parts of a Car English Vocabulary - Vocabulario en ingls Partes del ... [PAR] Sep 29, 2016 ... It is called the Trunk in the United States. Bonnet: The metal lid at the front of the 
car that covers the motor. It is called the Hood in United States. [DOC] [TLE] A conversion guide to British auto terminology | Hemmings Daily [PAR] Mar 12, 2014 ... Back in my younger motorcycle days we used to call Joseph Lucas .... [
passenger] cars as carriages, and [an American] football field as a... [DOC] [TLE] Urban Dictionary: shotgun [PAR] Usually "shotgun" is called when some smelly ass or really fuckin annoying 
people are. ... This is that, if the driver is the boyfriend/girlfriend of a passenger in 
the car, .... Girlfriend: (singing, unhelpfully) Goin' to the cha-pel an' we're - gonna 
get... [DOC] [TLE] Shotgun Rules: Official Rules for Calling Shotgun | Riding Shotgun [PAR] Calling Shotgun is the act of claiming the front passenger seat of a vehicle

Question: What we call a passenger car, the British call this
Answer: a carriage