International students find the Canadian accent easy to understand. A clear example of American influence is in the car industry. We say trunk of the car rather than the boot. We spell tire rather than tyre.
The trunk (North American English) or boot (British English) of a car is the vehicle's main storage or cargo compartment, often a hatch at the rear of the vehicle. It can also be called a tailgate.
Trunk. vs. The part of the car used to hold items you won't need access to without stopping the vehicle is called the boot in the UK, and the trunk in the US.
Both the terms refer to the same part of the car in different regions. In the United States, it's commonly called the "car trunk," while in the United Kingdom and many other English-speaking countries, it's known as the "car boot."
The word "boot"(which is commonly used by the English), goes back to 18th century horse-drawn carriages where the coachman sat on a chest, which was used to store, among other things, his boots. This storage space came to be termed as the "boot locker", which soon became the "boot".
Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists.
In British English, the boot of a car is the covered space, usually at the back, where you put things such as luggage or shopping. Is the boot open? In American English, this part of a car is called the trunk.
The hood (American English) or bonnet (Commonwealth English) is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. Hoods can open to allow access to the engine compartment, or trunk (boot in Commonwealth English) on rear-engine and some mid-engine vehicles) for maintenance and repair.
The term frunk has emerged in automotive circles as a term for an enclosed storage compartment located near the front of the vehicle. Such compartments are meant to be analogous to a trunk, which is traditionally located in the car's rear. Frunk, naturally, is a portmanteau of trunk and front.
On the other side, Australia refers to their HGVs as trucks, as do Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa. To conclude, although each word has its own history, a truck and a lorry are very much the same.
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, they are called tsinelas.
mackintosh, waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766–1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name. The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof by cementing two thicknesses of it together with rubber dissolved in a coal-tar naphtha solution.
Boots is the name of a British pharmacy chain. She's saying that if the plane sells cigarettes, she should be allowed to smoke on the plane. The man is saying that they sell condoms in the pharmacy, but one would assume they the pharmacy doesn't let you use the condoms for sex right in the store.
