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AMERICAN AND ENGLISH TODAY
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American
squash
stem-winder
stockholder
stocks
store-fixtures
street-cleaner
street-railway
subway
suspenders (men's)
sweater
switch (noun, railway)
switch (verb, railway)
taxes (municipal)
taxpayer (local)
tenderloin (of beef)
ten-pins
thumb-tack
ticket-office
tinner
tin-roof
track (railroad)
trained-nurse
transom (of door)
trolley-car
truck (vehicle)
truck (of a railroad car)
trunk
typewriter (operator)
typhoid-fever
undershirt
vaudeville-theatre
vegetables
vest
warden (of a prison)
warehouse
wash-rag
wash-stand
wash-wringer
waste-basket
whipple-tree[1]
witness-stand
wood-alcohol

English
vegetable-marrow
keyless-watch
shareholder
shares
shop-fittings
crossing-sweeper
tramway
tube, or underground
braces
jersey
points
shunt
rates
ratepayer
under-cut
nine-pins
drawing-pin
booking-office
tinker
leads
line
hospital-nurse
fanlight
tramcar
lorry
bogie
box
typist
enteric
vest
music-hall
greens
waistcoat
governor
stores
face-cloth
wash-hand-stand
mangle
waste-paper-basket
splinter-bar
witness-box
methylated-spirits





  1. Sometimes whiffle-tree