Bruce wrote:
Keith Willcocks wrote:
A few years ago we took a train trip across Canada and fell in with a
group of Americans. By the end of the trip I had them calling the
railroad: the railway, switches: points and ties: sleepers. Oh and
the engineer was the engine driver.

And Americans drive on the parkway whereas we park on the driveway.

I got a reprimand for saying that 'the law is an ass' on one US forum.