British English Vs American English: 24 Differences Illustrated

In the UK we also call jumpers sweaters and have done for years

We too have french fries (what you get in McDonalds) chips are different. We also use peckish and hungry they indicate a degree in our state of hunger.

I always thought gray was the other way around.

In the UK jacket and baked potato are interchangeable terms

Labeling of floors in elevators in both the US and UK is a permanent cause of confusion for continental ppl lol

Charles Franks is obviously an English language scholar. Please consult him before writing these articles

In the philippines, we call it signal lights lol

One of my sister in laws had a period of schooling in the states and had the class in fits of laughter when she asked for a rubber to rectify a mistake she had made not realising that a rubber was slang for a condom. Very red faced.

Autumn is widely used in the US. Basically holiday means a public holiday (what would be called a bank holiday in the UK) whereas vacation is your time off work. Actually that seems pretty reasonable.

Estate wagon sounds so much better. Would probably sell better too. You can't call a '78 Oldsmobile station wagon a 'sports wagon'...estate wagon would totally work tho

A parlour is a nice room in your house for special guests (bit old fashioned), you generally don't by ice cream there.

In the UK we do use program but only for computer programs.

I feel apologise looks much nicer

Americans love their z’s. Shove it in every word lol

I think I spell apologize both ways but mostly with z

Always the extra U or UE or UGH romoved by us americans.

The word parlor was also used in conjunction with funeral, funeral parlor. This is because prior to places to prepare and lay out a body the dead were placed in the parlor of their home. Funeral parlor has been replace with funeral home.

Being Dutch and therefore not brought up with either standard, the use of -ize or -ise always gets me confused. In this case apologise/ize does it. Making it more confusing the most used way according to several leading dictionaries should be Oxford English, meaning the use of -ize is the way to go: "The main difference between British and Oxford spelling is that the latter uses -ize (and -ization) instead of -ise (and -isation) (organize and organization instead of organise and organisation, for instance). This use of z instead of s does not apply, however, to words ending in -yse, such as analyse, which are written with an s in both standards (but not in the American standard, in which it is written analyze)." AE over BE for me in those cases :-)

Reason why word doesn't understand Indians :/

We use both TV and telly

sweets/candy in Australia = lollies, candy floss= fairy floss, ice lolly = icy pole,

I use many of these terms and I've never been to England.

Poor letter U

In the U.S. we use the word pitch in soccer, field in football.

The southern U.S. version of dish towel is "cup towel," even though you dry other dishes with it. And if we are betraying our roots, we say "dishrag" or "washrag" instead of dish cloth. I have to be really cautious to say the fancier one.

The "U" is getting to me now...

I always tried to spell mustache as moustache because it looked right to me, but autocorrect says it's incorrect! I guess I wasn't wrong, I was just a little British :D

Zebra crossing sounds like it would be way cooler than it actually is.

Postcode not postal code

So basically S's become Z's and we drop the U's

Diversion was a nightmare when I first moved to England! We were lost for 2 hours because the highway just closed and we had to exit! We had no clue what to do. Finally we saw a tiny sign that said diversion. We followed it and made it home!

Plaster=BandAid/bandage. Carriage=Pram