* 1950 – Korean War: British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.

Where British and American vocabulary differs, Australians sometimes favour an Australian usage, as with footpath ( for US sidewalk, UK pavement ) or capsicum ( for US bell pepper, UK sweet pepper ).

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

A few US professional societies whose professions frequently employ various non-word characters, such as chemistry and computer programming, use the British form in their style guides ( see ACS Style Guide ).

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.

Sir Edward Grey replied through the American ambassador that the incident could be grouped together with the Germans ' sinking of the SS Arabic, their attack on a stranded British submarine on the neutral Dutch coast, and their attack on the steamship Ruel, and suggested that they be placed before a tribunal composed of US Navy officers.

This reform will bring the ratio of regular and part-time personnel of the British Army in-line with US and Canadian allies.

In February 2012 an MI5 file on Chaplin was opened to the public which revealed that the FBI had contacted the British secret service to provide them with information which would enable them to ban Chaplin from the US.

The next year, Oona Chaplin renounced her US citizenship and became a British citizen.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

It opposes US military bases and nuclear weapons in Europe and British membership of NATO.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

The differences are usually referred to as UK / US or British / American.

Christadelphian hymnody makes considerable use of the hymns of the Anglican and British Protestant traditions ( even in US ecclesias the hymnody is typically more British than American ).

A cash register ( US English ) or till ( British English ) is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions, and an attached cash drawer for storing cash.

To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

In Canada, the 150 institutions that are the rough equivalent of the US community college are usually referred to simply as " colleges " since in common usage a degree granting institution is, almost, exclusively a university.

In Ireland, usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

* US and UK Conversion Chart Shows US and UK conversion charts, relationship to needle size and typical usage.

Marmite is traditionally eaten as a savoury spread on bread, toast, savoury biscuits ( crackers in US usage ), and other similar baked products.

In British English usage, and in British academia, " philology " remains largely synonymous with " historical linguistics ", while in US English, and US academia, the wider meaning of " study of a language's grammar, history and literary tradition " remains more widespread.

The term mallet is used exclusively in US English ; British English prefers the term polo stick as the stick technically differs from a mallet in shape and usage.

The US military used radioteletype in the 1930s and expanded this usage during World War II.

The US Military used radioteletype in the 1930s and expanded this usage during World War II.

In ordinary usage, skepticism ( US ) or scepticism ( UK ) ( Greek: ' σκέπτομαι ' skeptomai, to think, to look about, to consider ; see also spelling differences ) refers to:

But the usage is not always consistent – for example, some prominent American brands, such as George Dickel, Maker's Mark, and Old Forester ( which are all made by different companies ), use the ' whisky ' spelling on their labels, and the US legal Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits document also uses the ' whisky ' spelling.

Many proposals were suggested to put all US nuclear weapons under international control ( by the newly formed United Nations, for example ) as an effort to deter both their usage and an arms race.

In the US, magazines and newspapers often do not use it, instead printing " family-friendly " censored versions, usually " n * gg * r ", " n ** ger ", " n ——", and " the N-word "; however, historians and social activists, such as Dick Gregory, criticize the euphemisms and their usage as intellectually dishonest, because using the euphemism " the N-word " instead of nigger robs younger generations of Americans of the full history of Black people in America.

In British usage, barbecuing refers to a fast cooking process directly over high heat, while grilling refers to cooking under a source of direct, high heat — known in the US and Canada as broiling.

In US English usage, however, grilling refers to a fast process over high heat, while barbecuing refers to a slow process using indirect heat and / or hot smoke ( very similar to some forms of roasting ).

Some similar desserts are Bavarian cream, vanilla pudding ( in US usage ), panna cotta, and haupia.

In a 1989 survey of 126 US medical schools, only three reported usage of the original oath, while thirty-three used the Declaration of Geneva, sixty-seven used a modified Hippocratic oath, four used the Prayer of Maimonides, one used a covenant, eight used another oath, one used an unknown oath, and two did not use any kind of oath.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

A 1938 US radio production starred Joan Crawford as Nora and Basil Rathbone as Torvald.

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

On 27 November 2007, Textron announced that Cessna had purchased the bankrupt Columbia Aircraft company for US $ 26. 4M and would continue production of the Columbia 350 and 400 as the Cessna 350 and Cessna 400 at the Columbia factory in Bend, Oregon.

His musical fantasy One from the Heart, although it pioneered the use of video-editing techniques which are standard practice in the film industry today, ended with a disastrous box-office gross of $ 636, 796 against a US $ 26 million budget, far from enough to recoup the costs incurred in the production of the movie, and he was forced to sell his 23-acre Zoetrope Studio in 1983.

British special effects technicians and production designers are known for creating visual effects at a far lower cost than their counterparts in the US, as seen in Time Bandits ( 1981 ) and Brazil ( 1985 ).

One example of its work is a US $ 10. 2 million, € 7. 5 billion scheme to distribute and multiply quality seeds in Haiti, which has significantly increased food production, thereby providing cheaper food and boosting farmers ' incomes.

Toho had planned to shoot this film on location in Sri Lanka, but had to forgo that ( and scale back on production costs ) because they ended up paying RKO roughly $ 200, 000 ( US ) for the rights to the King Kong character.

Thyrostatics ( antithyroid drugs ) are drugs that inhibit the production of thyroid hormones, such as carbimazole ( used in UK ) and methimazole ( used in US ), and propylthiouracil.

One of only two American cycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression, Harley-Davidson again produced large numbers of motorcycles for the US Army in World War II and resumed civilian production afterwards, producing a range of large V-twin motorcycles that were successful both on racetracks and for private buyers.

Between and of Iraq ’ s declared oil production over the past four years could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a US Study from May 12, 2007.

He later emigrated to the United States and established his own research laboratory in New York City but licensed the exclusive production rights for Takadiastase to one of the largest US pharmaceutical companies, Parke Davis.

* Richard Kane in the 1985 US / Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story

The same production opened in the US at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2008, moving to Broadway ( Lyceum Theatre ) after a sold-out run.

Many standard IC op-amps cost only a few cents in moderate production volume ; however some integrated or hybrid operational amplifiers with special performance specifications may cost over $ 100 US in small quantities.

Doolittle had a much cleaner sound, largely due to Norton and the production budget of US $ 40, 000, which was quadruple that of Surfer Rosa.

** US " Competition Package " option dropped from production at end of 1982 model year.

** At 146 mph ( 235 km / h ) US model top speed, Porsche boldly claims the 928S to be " the fastest street legal production car sold in the US ".

* Angel in Overalls ( 1945, B & W, 15: 00 ) This film was developed to show US Lockheed P-38 production line workers in a wide variety of roles.

A year later on July 18, August 4, and August 25, the US Eighth Air Force conducted three additional Peenemünde raids to counter suspected hydrogen peroxide production.

After production had begun, Congress abolished the United States Film Service, and the project was shunted to the US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ).

* The visual quality of a soap opera is usually lower than prime time US television drama series due to the lower budgets and quicker production times.