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ORIGINAL: philosophy

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

A joke from the Bush era, from Brit comedian Alexei Sayle:
'You say 'sidewalk', we say 'pavement'; you say 'freeway', we say 'motorway'; you say 'President', we say 'murdering psychopathic bastard'.

Did you know that Margaret Thatcher was an anagram of 'evil nazi bitch'?........give or take a few letters.......

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

I have been wondering about some of the words used to describe things on here, things we call a name, but you Americans have another name for it. Faucet for example, a tap as we know it, Closet, that to us is a cupboard ,trunk on a car, to us, it is the boot, fanny  is to us, well, twat and there are others that escape me at the moment.

Now given the American Language  is really the  English language, why the difference in names used to describe common things. Where did you get your different words from ?