Much like a Quinten Tarantino film I will give you the result and then hopefully give you a satisfying explanation as to how we got there. The answer is: it depends. 

If you want to have conversation in English then choose American, if you want to able to communicate with as many people on the face of the earth as possible then go for British. If you want it to be easy to talk and understand for other competent English speakers and yourself, you go for American. But, if you’re looking for a language that has clear pronunciation so that people who are not as good in the language as the rest of the world understand, you go for British. It all comes down to wat English is to you, is it a way to understand other cultures and talk with others, or is it a way to communicate with most people in the world which you could not communicate with others. The clear benefits of choosing British is that it has quite clear pronunciations which makes it easier for people who are not as proficient in English as the rest of us to pick a part the different words, and there is no drowning out of any of the letters as the Americans drown out almost every other e or a. American however is a lot easier to write, this is not weird seeing as how the Americans actively changed the way the write different words such as color so that they would make more sense. It also has the added benefit of being easier to speak in long sentences due to how Americans speak quite monotone, this makes it a lot easier to read what kind of mood the speaker is in, whereas listeners have to listen must be much more aver of the scuttle differences in pronunciation when listening to someone with preference of the British form of English. In the end it is al up to you and what you seek out of English as a language.

Americans and the British people can easily understand each other, but there are many differences in both pronunciation and spelling. The British people don’t pronoun s r in the end of some words, however, in America they say the whole word. The Britain English say a long a in some words, for example can’t. Other differences between the languages are the spelling. Words like colour, theatre and defence are examples of words that are spelled differently on American and British. American and British English also use different words on thing. For example, Americans say pants, subway and cookie, while the people form Britain say trouser, underground and biscuit. 

Many people say that there are a big different between the American English and the British English, like many people thinks that the British English is more formal than the American English. But actually, the different are pretty small. The different is smaller than the different between Norwegian and German. Yes, you have some vocabulary differences like the British word lift and the American word elevator. The biggest different between American and British English is the spelling differences. One example is colour, flavour and labour in British English and color, flavor and labor in American English. 

One of the most noticeable differences between British English and American English are the pronunciation. British and American sound different and is easy to distinct from each other. Iconic for the British accent is cutting out the last R’s and leaving them silent. “Bettuh” instead of the American version “bedder”.  Typical for the Americans are to pronounce words like “can’t” more like “kænt”, while in the British accent you would pronounce it more like “Kaant”. Naturally, there are a lot of smaller differences as well, like how Americans usually turns words that are pronounced with a “tt” sound to a “dd” sound. Again, “bedder” instead of the British version “bettuh” 

 

After the American Revolution, which ended with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the English that was spoken in America developed differently than the British English. The Americans wanted to simplify and make the language more logical by changing how certain words were spelled. By doing this, they also distanced themselves from the Great Britain. In addition to changing the spelling, they also began using new words. Among these were words as apartment, cookie and store. It is clear that the, at that time, new-born nation wanted to build an own identity, and by changing the language, both in writing and oral. The British accent vanished, and typical ways of pronunciation disappeared with it, such as the British way of pronouncing the letter r. Instead of saying cah, the Americans say caR, and instead of saying bettuh, they say beddeR. All of this underlines that English has developed differently in the US and the UK. 

The differences in American and British English. 

Both vocabulary and pronunciation is on one hand similar but on the other hand it is different. British people are so used to be hearing American English that they are usually not so aware of the differences. One difference is the word trousers that is called jeans in British, but pants in American.  The word can’t, is pronounced differently in American and British English. In British, it is pronounced “kaant”, but in American it is pronounced “kænt”. 

Though similar, British English and American English have some distinct differences. Americans and Britons use slightly different spelling. American English was slightly changed shortly after the colonies became independent, to make spelling more logical. Essentially, the spelling of some words was simplified to make more sense phonetically, for example, colour became color, catalogue became catalog, etc. In addition, the british and American vocabularies differ slightly, though not enough to cause any major misunderstandings. Because both countries are culturally and politically important, people are used to hearing words from both languages. Lastly, British and American English uses different pronunciation. 

The main differences between American English and British English are mainly three things: Firstly, the pronunciation of words. This can for instance be the difference between the pronunciation of “r”s in these two accents. The second thing that divides American and British English is the written language, where it has been a simplifying in the American English. In American English, words that in British English make little sense compared to how they are being pronounced, are more logically spelled. For instance, the word “color” in American English is spelled “c – o – l – o – r”, opposed to “colour” in British English. Just in last sentence I used words that are simplified in American English. The last distinction between the written and oral American English and British English are the few words with a different meaning. A typical example is the word “trouser”. In British English, this means cloths on your legs. However, in American English it means the cloths under your pants. 

Even if both America and Great Britain speak English, there are still some differences in their language. One of the differences is the vocabulary, with both having some different words. Because of this, a lot of people think that American English is less formal than British English. That is not true, as both can be used formally and not. Some examples for different words for the same thing are: lift, biscuit, holiday and rubbish, which is British and would sound like this in American; elevator, cookie, vacation and garbage. There are also some differences in pronunciations. Where Americans would pronounce R, the Britons would keep them silent. This can also be seen in their spelling as well. Whereas Americans would write color, Britons would write colour, and where Americans would write catalog, Britons would write catalogue. 

Even though the language is almost the same, there’s a lot of differences between the American English and the British English. An example at something that makes it easy to take mistakes between the two languages, is the vocabulary differences. Many words have different meanings in the two languages, and some words doesn’t even exist in both. For example, lift in british, which means elevator in american. We also have pronunciation differences, that makes it clearer to divorce the two types of English. 

We have both American and British English, here is their history and how to differentiate these. From 1770 and a few centuries later British and American English, still sounded very much alike. Something that has not changed, is that Americans are very proud of everything they have. From 1800, they were very proud of their American English. They even invited young Englishmen to teach them the “real English”. The easiest way to hear a difference between these, is that the American English is a “simplified” version of the British English. The vocabulary is a good way to tell the difference, also their way of speech. The Americans have a very distinct way to speak, with their “twang”. They can tend to be a bit too much. While on the other hand, the British sounds politer.