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| Grammar.net Newbie United States grammar.net Joined 4881 days ago 2 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 23 16 July 2011 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I want to share some infographics about differences between UK and US spelling, maybe it
would be useful: UK vs US spelling: Separated by a Common Language 
Original source: http://www.grammar.net/ Can you add some more differences? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4889 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 2 of 23 16 July 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting to see :o) thanks for sharing! Don't forget the grey vs gray too lol :o) and we say maths as opposed to math... Wonder what else...? x
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| galindo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5208 days ago 142 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Portuguese | Message 3 of 23 16 July 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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One thing that stands out to me more than the spelling is the different use of articles. Where Americans would say, "in the hospital," people in the UK say "in hospital." They also say things like "the menopause" instead of just "menopause." I also think I remember seeing "watching the basketball" instead of "watching basketball." I can't think of any other examples right now, but those differences are much more jarring to me than spelling variations.
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5670 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 23 16 July 2011 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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British spelling wasn't standardised until Samuel Johnson published his dictionary in
the mid 18th century. Among many others, Noah Webster was very unhappy with Johnson's spellings, and called for spelling reform, which he achieved via the publication of his own dictionary in the USA about 70 years later. Webster introduced many more spelling reforms than those showed in the graph at the top of this thread. An excellent overview can be found in this wikipedia article Edited by Splog on 16 July 2011 at 7:48pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6660 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 5 of 23 16 July 2011 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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US tire/UK tyre
US maneuver/UK manoeuvre 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 8 of 23 17 July 2011 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
I've noticed this "oe" a few times in UK and other varieties of English where Americans would just use "e", as in foetus/fetus and encyclopoedia/encyclopedia. I think in slightly older texts (like Oscar Wilde's books) this is written with one letter as "œ". Edited by Lucky Charms on 17 July 2011 at 2:42am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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