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Trolley UK
Cart US

Tram UK
trolley car or streetcar USA

There is no real US equivilent to "Take the piss out"

New wave music UK
Music made by Punk rockers who intentionally scrapped thier punk ethos to sell records or arty/pop punk rock. In the UK New Wave is not generally used to describe any music past 1980

New wave Music US
Most Pop/rock/ synth music made in the 1980's insipired by punk and made by mostly British androgynous groups, mostly using synths influenced by glam and disco. More and more this music is called "Classic Alternative" now.

Synthpop in the UK and USA has mostly the same meaning now. In the USA in the ' 80's it was mostly called techno pop. In the UK it is considered a seperate genre of music in the USA the main sub genre of New Wave.

Since Bowie just died glam rock has the same meaning now in both places but in the '70's the preferred American term was "Glitter Rock"

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.