Do you know the main differences between British and American English?

 




UK English, USA English, UK vs US English

If you are working in an MNC you must be familiar with the use of English used in their work process according to US and UK Clients. Some common words we all know are like Colour and Color, Neighbor and Neighbour. However, the most significant differences include:

·      Pronunciation is a difference between words with the letter r and the letter t, generally r and t letters are not pronounced in American English like when in the middle of a sentence, for example, Saturday, waiter. Also, in American English letter ‘t’ is dropped to pronounce after the letter n, for example, ‘centre’ is called cenre.

·       Vocabulary- There are things we call using different terms in America and British, for example, Pants (American) - Trousers (British), Elevator- Lift, Cookies - Biscuit, Apartment-Flat, Line - Queue, Parking Lot- Car Park, respectively.

·        Spellings-The most commonly used in the editing process is spelling, most words ending in  ‘our ‘ in British is without ‘u’ in America, for example, humour is humor, colour, color, behaviour is behavior. The letter “re” in British is ‘er ‘ in American English for example Centre is Center, Litre is Liter, also the most common is ‘ise’ in British is “ize’ in American English like Organise is Organize and Realise is Realize.  

Here in this blog, we have used both types of English, nowadays there are no hard and fast rules except if you are working strictly in a format like Books or Advertisements of that particular country. Watch this space for more content-related topics.

 

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