It is hard to identify building products across county lines, let alone with the folk who speak a common tongue!
Here are some of the more common names and "translations for them.
I keep seeing AWG (American Wire Guage) and I need to convert that to BWG (British Wire Guage) or metric sizes.
Look at the chart on the Comparison of Wire Gauges
What size wire should I use?
That depends on what you are hooking up. One thing to remember if the Fusing Currents of the wire gauge.