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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'.
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).
'observability'
'complexity'
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'.
'triability'
Greenfield and Franchising
Direct export
Indirect export
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 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.