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British English American EnglishAUTUMN FALLBAG SACKBARRISTOR LAWYERBISCUIT COOKIECAR PARK PARKING LOTCASHIER TELLERCHEMIST'S SHOP DRUG STORE

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[nq:1]British English American English AUTUMN FALL BAG SACK BARRISTOR LAWYER BISCUIT COOKIE CAR PARK PARKING LOT CASHIER TELLER CHEMIST'S SHOP DRUG STORE[/nq]
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[nq:1]British English American English AUTUMN FALL BAG SACK BARRISTOR LAWYER[/nq]
A barrister is a particular type of lawyer (a word also used in Britain), who specialises in arguing cases in court. I think Americans would refer to this person as an attorney. Another type of lawyer in England, Wales and Ireland (the terminology is different in Scotland) is a solicitor - you'd go to him for legal advice or write a will.
[nq:1]BISCUIT COOKIE CAR PARK PARKING LOT CASHIER TELLER[/nq]
In a supermarket I think you call the person collecting the money at the till a "check-out clerk". In Britain you could call this person a cashier.
[nq:1]CHEMIST'S SHOP DRUG STORE[/nq]
The part of the drugstore (wrtiien as one word) where you geet your prescription drugs is called the pharmacy.
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[nq:2]British English American English AUTUMN FALL BAG SACK BARRISTOR LAWYER BISCUIT COOKIE CAR PARK PARKING LOT CASHIER TELLER[/nq]
Bag and sack are both used in the U.S. There are regional variations. Likewise, "cashier" is not at all uncommon in U.S. English.

R. Walker.
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[nq:2]British English American English AUTUMN FALL[/nq]
Both "autumn" and "fall" are used in AmE.
[nq:2]BAG SACK[/nq]
As are both "bag" and "sack", although one or the other might be more common and/or have slightly different denotations in different regions.
[nq:2]BARRISTOR LAWYER[/nq]
[nq:1]A barrister is a particular type of lawyer (a word also used in Britain), who specialises in arguing cases in court. I think Americans would refer to this person as an attorney.[/nq]
"Lawyer" and "attorney" are largely synonymous in AmE, although the latter is somewhat higher register and pretty much the only one found in formal situations, and certainly in official titles. (For example, no one would ever refer to *"the Lawyer General of the United States" or *"the District Lawyer of Los Angeles County".) In this sense, "lawyer" vs. "attorney" is very similar to "cop" vs. "police officer".
In any case, there's certainly no nomenclatural distinction between lawyers who specialize in arguing cases in front of a judge in court and those who normally don't, unlike BrE "barrister" vs. "solicitor".
[nq:1]Another type of lawyer in England, Wales and Ireland (the terminology is different in Scotland) is a solicitor - you'd go to him for legal advice or write a will.[/nq]
[nq:2]BISCUIT COOKIE[/nq]
Note that "biscuit" is used in AmE, the distinction being, very broadly, that cookies are sweet and biscuits aren't. (If anything, biscuits are salty.)
[nq:2]CAR PARK PARKING LOT CASHIER TELLER[/nq]
[nq:1]In a supermarket I think you call the person collecting the money at the till a "check-out clerk". In Britain you could call this person a cashier.[/nq]
Yes, but in AmE you can also call a supermarket check-out clerk a "cashier", and only "cashier" is used for, say, the person you pay in a restaurant (or to whom your waiter or waitress takes your money or credit card, and from whom they bring back your change, if applicable).
And of course, in AmE a "teller" is the person behind a bank window, where you got cash from, or made deposits to, your account in prehistoric times before Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) became ubiquitous.

Jim Heckman

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