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This British English vs American English template will help you learn the differences in vocabulary, spelling, dates, pronunciation, grammar, and numbers between American English and British English.
American English is spoken in the United States, and British English is spoken in the United Kingdom.
What particularity in pronunciation have you spotted?
Think of the sounds /o/ and /ae/, pronunciation of letter 'T', unaccented syllables, etc.
Example: sound /o/ is pronounced with rounded lips only in BrE.
Miscellaneous grammatical differences
Type in any other miscellaneous particularities of the two language versions.
Example: when naming rivers in AmE, the word 'river' comes after the name: 'Upper Delaware River'. In BrE, 'river' always comes in front of the name: 'River Thames'.
Preposition differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of prepositions in Standard British English (BrE).
Example: British sportsmen play in a team.
Preposition differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of prepositions in American English (AmE).
Example: American athletes play on a team.
Verb differences
What are the particularities regarding the use of verbs in Standard British English (BrE)? Type them in. Take into account the use of tenses, verb morphology, auxiliaries, transitivity, etc.
Example: BrE uses present perfect along with the words 'already', 'just' and 'yet' to talk about an event in the recent past: We have just arrived home.
Verb differences
What are the particularities regarding the use of verbs in American English (AmE)? Type them in. Take into account the use of tenses, verb morphology, auxiliaries, transitivity, etc.
Example: AmE occasionally uses simple past instead of past perfect to talk about an event in the recent past: I just arrived from work.
Noun differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of nouns in Standard British English (BrE).
Here, collective nouns can take plural verb forms if the emphasis is on the individual members: The team were unable to agree on the defense strategy.
Noun differences
Type in the particularities regarding the use of nouns in American English (AmE).
For instance, collective nouns almost always take singular verb forms: The team was awarded first prize in the competition.
How is writing numbers different in American English from Standard British English? Type in some situations.
Example: AmE speakers will drop the 'and' before the tens and units, while the BrE speakers will always write numbers of such with 'and': 'two thousand fourteen' (AmE) or 'two thousand and fourteen' (BrE).
Type in some of these situations.
Example: for the house numbers or bus numbers (or any short numbers of such), for example, 583, American speakers will say ' five eighty-three', while British people will say ' five eight three'.
How do you say the date?
AmE and BrE speakers say the date differently.
Type in the two ways of saying the date in English, taking into account the order in which they say the day (DD), the month (MM) and the year (YYYY).
What is the difference in date format?
The date is formatted differently in American English and Standard British English.
Type in the two formats, taking into account that it has to include the day (DD), the month (MM) and the year (YYYY).
Use of letter 'U' in words ending in 'OR'
In American English, words ending in 'OR' do not include the letter 'U'.
Type in as many words as you can. Example: 'color' (AmE) and 'colour' (BrE).
Use of double consonants
Type in the words that are written with double consonants only in one version of the language.
Example: 'traveler' (AmE) and 'traveller' (BrE).
Words with different endings
Type in the words which have one ending in American English and another one in Standard British English.
Example: AmE has changed words ending in 're' in 'er': 'theater' and 'theatre'.
The same word with different meanings
Type in examples of words that have different meanings in American and Standard British English.
Example: 'bill' can both refer to paper money (AmE) and an invoice (BrE).
Different words with the same meaning
There are many objects that are described by different words in American and British English.
Example: 'Cookie' (AmE) and 'biscuit' (BrE) both refer to the same sweet baked food.
Type in some of these words.
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