If you’ve ever seen the British comedy “Clockwise” you’ll know that traveling can be difficult, especially when words can mean two different things, and each person hears a different definition. “Do I turn left here?” you ask. “Right,” comes the response – and does that mean “yes, that’s correct” or “no, you need to turn right instead”? Many people are nervous about traveling in countries where they don’t speak the language, but choosing to visit an English-speaking country doesn’t remove all of the potential pitfalls. We’ve collected a few words that have different meanings in the United States and the UK (and some other places formerly part of the British Empire). They won’t necessarily get you lost, but you might find things easier if you know what’s what.

When you head out from the airport in Los Angeles, the taxi driver will put your bags in the trunk. When you travel from the airport to your hotel in London, the cab driver will store your luggage in the boot.

At a hotel in Bristol, there might be a welcoming gift of a small package of biscuits waiting for you in your room. But in Boston, those sweet treats are called cookies, and biscuits are what you might find served as part of a bread selection at a restaurant, small flaky round quickbreads that are usually not sweet at all.

If you’ve worked up an appetite on your walk to a restaurant in Canterbury, you can order an entreé as well as a main dish. You might not be as hungry if you drive when you’re visiting Cincinnati, so you can skip the appetizer and just order an entreé.

After you’re done with your meal at a restaurant in Miami, the waiter will bring you the check; however, in Manchester, you may need to ask for the bill.

If you’d rather go to a bar to watch the football game, you might see highlights of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl, but if you fancy a pint at a pub, your fellow football fans will be cheering for (or against) Arsenal.

Avoiding alcohol? Order a lemonade in Worcester, England and you’ll get a carbonated lemon-flavored drink. In Worcester, Massachusetts you’ll get lemon juice sweetened with sugar and mixed with non-carbonated water – and if this is what you’re looking for in Woomera, ask for a lemon squash.

You can enjoy your refreshing drink while sitting in the garden at your friend’s house in Gloucester, though back home in Gainesville you’d probably get up from your seat in the back yard and walk over to the little garden you planted with fresh herbs for a sprig of mint.

Even travel within your own country can be difficult! One of the first ATM (automated teller machine, or cash machine in the UK) networks in the United States was based in the upper Midwestern states, and was called “Take Your Money Everywhere” (abbreviated TYME machine). This caused problems for people from Wisconsin and Michigan who would visit other states, and ask their worried friends and relatives where the nearest “time machine” was …