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British | Canadian | American |
Y | ||
| Year
One, Year Two (school)
Primary One, Primary Two (primary school, Scotland) First Year, Second Year (secondary school, Scotland) | Grade One, Grade Two | First Grade, Second Grade |
| Year Nine | Grade Nine | Freshman Year, Ninth Grade |
| Year Ten | Grade Ten | Sophomore Year, Tenth Grade |
| Year Eleven | Grade Eleven | Junior Year, Eleventh Grade |
| Year Twelve | Grade Twelve | Senior Year, Twelfth Grade |
Yeti, Abominable Snowman | Sasquatch, Big Foot, Abominable Snowman | Big Foot |
Y-fronts, smalls, underwear, shorts, boxers, briefs (male) | underwear, shorts, boxers, briefs, undershorts, Stanfields, ginch, gonch, gitch, gotch | shorts, briefs, undershorts, boxers underwear, drawers, undies, BVD's, Jockeys, Fruit of the Looms |
yokel, country bumpkin | country bumpkin, yokel, hillbilly, redneck | hillbilly, yokel, redneck |
| Yours sincerely | Sincerely | Sincerely |
| You're welcome | You're welcome | You're welcome, uh-huh (informal) |
| Z | ||
zebra crossing, pedestrian crossing | pedestrian crossing, crosswalk | pedestrian crossing, crosswalk |
zed | zed | zee |
zimmer, zimmer frame | walker | walker |
zip, flies | zipper, flies | zipper, fly |
zit, spot | pimple, zit | pimple, zit |
999 | 911 | 911 |
