British English or American English?
Are you sitting looking at a text, wondering whether it’s written in British or American English? Or are you perhaps interested to know in general how the two variants of the language differ?
The following overview provides you with a few of the answers. Some of the differences just involve spelling, while in other cases, it’s the pronunciation that changes — and occasionally, even the words and expressions used are quite distinct from each other.
This table is constantly updated, so it’s worth keeping an eye on it.
British | American |
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analyse | analyze |
apologise | apologize |
biscuit | cookie |
catalogue | catalog |
centre | center |
colour | color |
enrol | enroll |
favourite | favorite |
flat | apartment |
full stop | period |
grey | gray |
holiday | vacation |
humour | humor |
kilometre | kilometer |
licence (noun) | license |
lift | elevator |
litre | liter |
mobile phone | cellphone |
post(al) code | zip code |
(round) brackets | parentheses |
shopping centre | mall |
specialise | spezialize |
surname | last name |
Evgenij Unker
Dated: 18.06.2013
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