Autumn or fall? by María Martín Blanco https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican Search for vocabulary, grammatical and pronunciation differences between American English (AE) and British English (BE). Ready, steady....go! en-us 2014-10-25 14:07:14 UTC 2025-11-30 23:24:18 UTC hello@padlet.com http://d20uo2axdbh83k.cloudfront.net/20150106/3a0614c4548edca94bb006139d0850af/Fotolia_10620248_small.jpg Antonio maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556720 BE: Lift

AE: elevator

]]> 2014-10-25 14:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556720 Sara maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556757 AE: biscuit

BE: cookie

]]> 2014-10-25 14:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556757 Ana maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556763 BE: Film

AE: Movie

]]> 2014-10-25 14:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38556763 Juan Carlos maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38557076 AE: Candy

BE: Sweet

]]> 2014-10-25 14:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38557076 Rocío maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38557377 BE: Underground

AE: Subway

]]> 2014-10-25 14:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/38557377 Rodrigo maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072325 Spelling differences between AE and BE:

]]> 2015-01-04 15:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072325 Manuel  maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072471 The verb 'to get'. In BE, the three forms of get are get (present)- got (past simple) - got (past participle). 

In AE, the past participle of get is gotten:

]]> 2015-01-04 15:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072471 Marcelo maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072569 Regular or irregular? Burn, learn and dream. In BE, we can spell the past simple and past participle forms of these verbs with either -ed  or -t (burned/burnt, dreamed/ dreamt, learned/learnt).

AmE prefers the -ed ending (burned, dreamed, learned)

]]> 2015-01-04 15:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072569 In/on for street names  maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072696 BE uses in with street names while AE prefers on.

]]> 2015-01-04 15:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072696 Gonzalo maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072760 BE: chips

AE: fries

]]> 2015-01-04 15:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072760 Sonia maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072797 AE: Garbaje

BE: Rubbish

]]> 2015-01-04 15:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072797 Words ending in –re maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072961 British English words that end in -re (litre) often end in -er  (liter) in American English.

]]> 2015-01-04 15:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45072961 Nouns ending with -ence (licence, ofence..)  maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073217 Some nouns that end with -ence in BE 

are spelled -ense in AE.

]]> 2015-01-04 15:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073217 ANA maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073291 AE: Pants

BE: Trousers

]]> 2015-01-04 16:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073291 JON maria_martinbla https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073374 BE: Queue

AE: Line

]]> 2015-01-04 16:04:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_martinbla/britamerican/wish/45073374