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The system of saying and writing numbers is a little different . The british insert ánd´before tens and the units , as in tho hundred and fifty. Americans are more likely to read numbers 1,456 as a fourteen fifty-six instead of one thousand, four hundred and fifty-six, unless they are reffering to years.

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Recipes demonstrate how many differences in food and cooking terminology there are.

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Going shooping might be quite confusing in the two countries if some lexical differences are unknown.

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Steet objects like parking meter, pedestrian and traffic are shared by the two varieties.

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In house terminology, there is a straightforward translation from a variety to the other for some terms.

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Most differences can be found in ordinary life, especially in oral speech.

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LEXICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH

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LEXICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH

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CLASSIFICACION OF UK/US LEXICAL DIFFERENCES

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CLASSIFICACION OF UK/US LEXICAL DIFFERENCES

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Youth can be one of the most important social groups in language evolution, observing that younger people are more likely to experiment with language. producing slang, deviant spellings, idioms, and expressions, some of which eventually become part of the standard.

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In other cases, some words that are common in one place are rare in the other, such as the words ´soppy´or ´row´ are uncommon in American speech but they are quite well known in th UK.

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Sometimes, two different words are used but their meaning is quite obvious, such as for the American ´luggage´ and the British ´baggage¨

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Sometimes, words are used in different ways to name the same thing, such as for the American ´railroad tie´and the British ´railway sweeper´

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The difference between American and British people was their accent, the pronunciation of words, also there are some vocabulary differences

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Nowadays, despite the divergence due to the gain of independece and the prominence of the United States, the separation between the two cultures is not complete.

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History

The British actually introduced the language to the Americas when they reached these lands by sea between the 16th and 17th centuries. At that time, spelling had not yet been standardised. It took the writing of the first dictionaries to set in stone how these words appeared. In the UK, the dictionary was compiled by London-based scholars. Meanwhile, in the United States, the lexicographer was a man named Noah Webster. Allegedly, he changed how the words were spelled to make the American version different from the British as a way of showing cultural independence from its mother country.

In terms of speech, the differences between American and British English actually took place after the first settlers arrived in America. These groups of people spoke using what was called rhotic speech, where the 'r' sounds of words are pronounced. Meanwhile, the higher classes in the UK wanted to distinguish the way they spoke from the common masses by softening their pronunciation of the 'r' sounds. Since the elite even back then were considered the standard for being fashionable, other people began to copy their speech, until it eventually became the common way of speaking in the south of England.

Spelling differences

British and American English have some spelling differences. The common ones are presented in the table below.

-ogue (e.g. analogue, monologue, catalogue)

-og (e.g. analog, monolog, catalog)

*Note that American English also recognizes words spelled with -ogue

Vocabulary differences

The Americans and the British also have some words that differ from each other. The table below lists some of the everyday objects that have different names, depending on what form of English you are using.

Grammar differences

Aside from spelling and vocabulary, there are certain grammar differences between British and American English. For instance, in American English, collective nouns are considered singular (e.g. The band is playing). In contrast, collective nouns can be either singular or plural in British English, although the plural form is most often used (e.g. The band are playing).

The British are also more likely to use formal speech, such as 'shall', whereas Americans favour the more informal 'will' or 'should'.

Americans, however, continue to use 'gotten' as the past participle of 'get', which the British have long since dropped in favour of 'got'.

'Needn't', which is commonly used in British English, is rarely, if at all used in American English. In its place is 'don't need to'.

In British English, 'at' is the preposition in relation to time and place. However, in American English, 'on' is used instead of the former and 'in' for the latter.

Final point

While there may be certain differences between British and American English, the key takeaway is that the two have more similarities. Accidentally using one instead of the other will not automatically lead to miscommunication. Americans and Brits can usually communicate with each other without too much difficulty, so don't be too hard on yourself if you are unable to memorise the nuances of both languages.

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Differences between British and American English

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The language may be similar, but there are some differences between British and American English in both the written and spoken forms. Why did the language diverge into two?

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During the 18th century, a great wave of about 275,000 immigrants from the border regions led to a blur of the regional dialects.

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Western Africans arrived in American around the year 1619, slaves spoke dozens of different American dialects and languages, but slave traders used pidgins as the most practical solution to communicate with them.

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The southerners moved towards the Gulf Coast and the Midlands, going towards the western area.

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These settlers came from Essex, Kent, Londo, bringing their non-rhotic accent in New England.

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In November 1620, a gruop  of thirtyfive members of the Puritan English Separatist Church arrived in the United States.

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At the very beginning of the American conquest, the settlers used their own dialects, some of which still influence American nowadays.

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The fist divergences between the English language used in Great Britain and the variety used in the United States have a historical and nationalistic origin.

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This work focuses on a description of lexical differences of everyday language between American and British English. It the results of a survey among speakers of the two varieties to verify how wel American and British speakers understand each other.