Difference Between American English And British English

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Difference Between American English And British
English
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AMERICAN ENGLISH

• American English (AmE) is the form of English
  used in the United States.
• American English in its written form is
  standardized across the U.S. (and in schools
  abroad specializing in American English).
• American speech is somewhat uniform throughout
  the country, largely because of the influence of
  mass communication and geographical and social
  mobility in the United States

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BRITISH ENGLISH

• British English (BrE) is the form of English used
  in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British
  Isles. It includes all English dialects used
  within the British Isles.
• British English has a reasonable degree of
  uniformity in its formal written form. On the
  other hand, the forms of spoken English
  dialects and vocabulary used across the British
  Isles vary considerably more than in most other
  English-speaking areas of the world.

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Historical background

• The English language was first introduced to the
  Americas by British, beginning in the late 16th
  century. Similarly, the language spread to
  numerous other parts of the world as a result of
  British colonization elsewhere and the spread of
  the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held
  sway over a population of about 470570 million
  people approximately a quarter of the world's
  population.

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PRONUNCIATION

• GRAMMAR
• SINGULAR AND PLURAL FOR NOUNS
• For Example, In British "the team are
  worried" American "the team is worried".
  Americans may use the plural form when the
  individual membership is clear, for example, "the
  team take their seats" (not "the team takes its
  seat (s), although it is almost always rephrased
  to avoid the singular/plural decision, as in "the
  team members take their seats".

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PHRASEL VERBS

• In the U.S., forms are usually but not invariably
  filled out, but in Britain they can also be
  filled in. However, in reference to individual
  parts of a form, Americans may also use in ("fill
  in the blanks"). In AmE the direction "fill it
  all in" (referring to the form as a collection of
  blanks, perhaps) is as common as "fill it all
  out."

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USE OF TENSES

• British uses the present perfect tense to talk
  about an event in the recent past and with the
  words already, just and yet. In American usage,
  these meanings can be expressed with the present
  perfect (to express a fact) or the simple past
  (to imply an expectation). This American style
  has become widespread only in the past 20 to 30
  years the "British" style is still in common use
  as well.
• "I've just got(ten) home." / "I just got home."
• "I've already eaten." / "I already ate."

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DIFFERENT PREPOSITIONS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS

• In the United States, the word through can mean
  "up to and including" as in Monday through
  Friday. In the UK Monday to Friday, or Monday to
  Friday inclusive is used instead Monday through
  to Friday is also sometimes used.
• In AmE, one always speaks of the street on which
  an address is located, whereas in BrE in can also
  be used in some contexts. In suggests an address
  in a city street, so a service station (or a
  tourist attraction or indeed a village) would
  always be on a major road, but a department store
  might be in Oxford Street.

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MISCELLANEOUS GRAMMATICAL DIFFERENCE

• In names of American rivers, the word river
  usually comes after the name (for example,
  Colorado River), whereas for British rivers it
  comes before (as in River Thames).
• In most areas of the United States, the word with
  is also used as an adverb "I'll come with"
  instead of "I'll come along". However, in some
  British Dialects, 'come with' is used as an
  abbreviation of 'come with me', as in "I'm going
  to the office - come with" instead of "I'm going
  to the office - come with me".

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REFERENCES

• Hargreaves, Orin (2003). Mighty Fine Words and
  Smashing Expressions. Oxford Oxford University
  Press. ISBN 0-19-515704-4
• McArthur, Tom (2002). The Oxford Guide to World
  English. Oxford Oxford University Press. ISBN
  0-19-866248-3.
• Peters, Pam (2004). The Cambridge Guide to
  English Usage. Cambridge Cambridge University
  Press. ISBN 0-521-62181-X.