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To ring someone in the uk is to call them on the phone. I'm not sure whether all of the US is unfamiliar with that usage but my friend from Pittsburgh was and found it hilarious. Interestingly, in Denmark they use their word for 'ring' in the same context as we do. Another one is UK 'leave me alone' and US 'let me alone'. There are also situations where 'have and has' are interchangeable in UK English but not in US English. Of course a lot of Americanisms are originally from UK English, but have died out in the UK itself.

"Leave me alone" is used much more often then "let me alone" in my part of America.

The use of British English has become more common here in recent years . "spot on" and "I'm over the moon" are used here regularly nowadays. You never heard those expressions from Americans 10 years ago.

Well, I don't quite get the idea of 'taking the piss' out of rubbish but in another context if it is. And at the moment it is pissing it down which of course would be slang for raining cats and dogs, another phrase I've never quite got or who invented it. It's raining men out there I don't hear that much, us Brits have some very useful terms for almost everything in life.
As for the last one, it's not something I'm over the moon about, is usually a metaphor for not being happy about something, in less colloquial terms.

Yes, there are pubs in America. In fact, there's a pub not far from my house. Another general rule is that when spelling words that have "ou" in them (colour, favourite) us Americans tend to exclude the "u." Here are a few more:

English/American

Centre/Center
Crisps/Chips
Football/Soccer (not to be confused with another game played in the U.S. that is commonly called "football," while players try to run to one end of the field while carrying the ball, and opponents try to block or tackle rivals)

As Oscar Wilde said: 'The Americans and the British are divided by a common language'.

Some of which are divided by Mr and Lady Muck.

^^ If you are referring to the 'trunk' as something, I would guess its the boot of a car.
Wellington boots you wear in the rain, but most of us just say we are wearing wellies today because its raining.
I've got winter boots I've stashed away for storage now.

I've never referred to a trunk as a storage box, but I don't know if you'd say your garage is referred to as container?
I wouldn't say its the attic or anything. Outhouse, seems a possibility, because some rear extensions, have but a number of names, like out on the porch is front and out the garden or decking means back.

Maybe I missed it, by I'm surprised I haven't seen posted...
"Fanny": US = Backside, UK = Female genitals.
...I still can't hear/see US folks talk about a "fanny pack" without giggling; it always makes me stop and wonder what such a thing could possibly be! Definitely a word to be very careful with if you're a US citizen visiting the UK!

A few others that I've noticed over the years...

- The US usage; "To write [person]", would always be "To write to [person]" in the UK.

- In many UK areas the usual slang for "toilet" would be "loo" (presumably short for "lavatory").

- In the UK "Pop" is often any non-alcoholic cold drink (even if not fizzy), "soda" is generally used only for carbonated water without any flavouring.

- "Cellphone" is rarely used in the UK, they're nearly always called "Mobiles".

- The abusive use of the word "ret*d" seems to be far less common in the UK than in the US.

- The many regional UK terms for the drink tea. e.g. "cuppa", "brew", "mash". And in the north of the UK, "tea" is also used to mean the meal eaten in the early evening. There is a quite striking North/South UK split between "lunch"(south) / "dinner" (north) for the midday meal, and "dinner" (south) / "tea" (north) for the evening meal.

- In the UK, dates are always written as day/month/year, not month/day/year, as in the US.

- "Chips" (UK) = "Fries" (US). "Chips" (US) = "Crisps" (UK).

- In the UK, an increase in wages is nearly always a "pay rise" rather than a "raise".

- In the UK, the word "libertarian" has a much more general meaning of "someone who doesn't interfere with other people's freedoms", rather than the connotation of political allegiance that it seems to have in the US.

Pop is used in many areas of the US. Soda is used here in New York

fag = UK something you smoke
fag = US slur against homosexual men