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British people and American people can always understand each other – but there are a few notable differences between British English and American English
Grammar
Americans use the present perfect tense less than speakers of British English and a British teacher might mark wrong some things that an American teacher would say are correct.
In British English, ‘have got’ is often used for the possessive sense of ‘have’ and ‘have got to’ is informally used for ‘have to’. This is much less common in American English.
There are a number of other minor grammatical differences.
Vocabulary
There are a lot of examples of different words being used in British and American English. Here are a few of the commonest.
There are British words which many Americans will not understand and vice versa. There are also words which exist in both British and American English but have very different meanings.
Spelling
There are also a number of different spelling rules between British English and American English.
1 Some words that end in ‘-tre’ in British English end in ‘-ter’ in American English.
2 Some words that end in ‘-our’ in British English end in ‘-or’ in American English.
3 Some words are shorter in American English than in British English.
There are other minor spelling differences between British and American English.
British English and American English
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