10 Differences between British English and American English

[@oddsandends3951]

I have to take English as second language at school since elementary class. I've got to tell you, we were taught to write British English but speak in American English. Only a few here imitate RP accent which I love and adapt to myself.

[@mafizuddinsarker2849]

Thank you so much for your presentation regarding the Difference between British English and American English.

[@Grammar-Monster]

You're welcome!

[@christopherlamitie3506]

I’m an American and I would like to bring up two things. I never put the comma inside the quotes unless the comma was part of a sentence in quotes as in “Yes, no and maybe” or “I’m going to the movies.” which brings up the second thing. Please note I wrote “Yes, no and maybe” and not “Yes, no, and maybe”. No comma after no. I doubt I am unique amongst Americans in this regard.

[@Grammar-Monster]

Hi, Christopher. It's a good point, but the biggest complaint I get from Americans is about not putting commas and periods *inside* quotation marks. If you read any American grammar reference, you'll see that most Americans do put them inside. Most Americans use the Oxford Comma too.

[@channelmar15]

4:30 there is another exception: traveling is the US spelling while travelling is the UK spelling which you accidentally flipped over.

[@gulhanmiller8758]

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[@franciskleinlaluanyt4631]

When I spelled the colour, they thought I was wrong so when I watched this, it was Britain.

[@mariambajelidze8515]

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[@suhahspoemandrecitation4442]

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[@MrKangoo20]

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[@jameslabs1]

Something wrong with the audio in this video. There’s a studded effect randomly throughout the video. Thanks

[@Grammar-Monster]

Yes, thank you. We can hear it too. It’s obvious with headphones. We’ll look to fix that. We’re not sure why it’s happening. Helpful. Thank you! 👍

[@kinuux]

guys, to learn English, follow these steps: 1/ love English language 2/ choose British/American 3/ talk with a native speaker ( wait, this is not easy to do it but believe me talking just 1 month with a native speaker is worth more than 10 years of learning)

[@yasmeenbegum626]

Thank you 😊

[@alnitaka]

You didn't mention the letter Z. It's Zed in British, Zee in American.

[@MohamadZadeh]

Thanks it was very interesting, I live in Australia so I see Australian words mix between both American and British but mostly closer to British..😀

[@patipedra]

Please The letters is smaller

[@davidberlant5096]

Two points I'd like to make: 1 - I'm a native American and I've never seen commas and periods written inside quotation marks as you have shown them. The exception being when the quote includes a full sentence when includes that punctuation. 2 - The letter 'z' is pronounced 'zee' in America, not 'zed'.

[@Grammar-Monster]

Americans put commas inside quotation marks all the time! When I had them outside, I was bombarded by Americans complaining. Pick up any US grammar reference book. The commas are all inside. I wish they weren't, but they are.

[@TheRubyFeline]

@@Grammar-Monster That's odd because I have never seen anyone put punctuation marks inside quotes either.

[@Grammar-Monster]

@@TheRubyFeline Here's a direct quotation from the Grammarly website: "Commas and periods always go inside the quotation marks in American English; dashes, colons, and semicolons almost always go outside the quotation marks." Also, I have a copy of Drey's English (Chief Editor of Random House), and he puts them all inside. I wish UK and US were consistent on this because I can't keep both sides happy unless I use italics instead of quotation marks (but italics look awful).

[@TheRubyFeline]

@@Grammar-Monster Grammarly may well say that, I don't dispute it, but I have never seen it in so-called real life.🤷🏻‍♀️

[@Grammar-Monster]

@@TheRubyFeline I wish you were right. All I can say is Google it.

[@margaretrahul9862]

Thankyou for your tech information

[@Grammar-Monster]

My pleasure

[@priyanshuchouhan8716]

The video was fruitful to me.

[@marcosnahuel_03]

Sorry, but at minute 4:28 you've confused the spelling in 'Travelling'... Travelling with double l is the brit one 😅 (not bad intention)

[@Grammar-Monster]

Yes, you're right. Thank you. I will leave this comment here to inform people.

[@cl4613]

And what about "fuelled" and "skillful" ? Isn't it the other way round ? (although I'm surprised that there are more letters in the US spelling than in the British one !! ;-) I checked on wordreference.

[@cl4613]

@@Grammar-Monster Maybe you could put the comment higher up in the list of comments, no ?

[@samirabella4013]

Thanks for your great explanation,so is it normal to speak and write in British English and American English in the same time?

[@jamilashima6811]

As a Brit, I wouldn't quite anticipate that. (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

[@-l485]

isn't it fuelled for british and fueled for american? its the same concept as traveller (UK/AUS) vs traveler (US)

[@bellhanger78]

Color (and some other words). The US spelling is down to Noah Webster's effort in the 1780s to make spelling easier for American school children: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Blue-backed_speller

[@saminamaroosh8226]

so informative

[@saishadutta8543]

one lovely

[@harlangrove3475]

'which' isn't that uncommon in American English. FWIW, I was taught that dependent clauses serving as nouns use 'that', while dependent clauses serving as adjectives use 'which'. Commas would never be used with the former because such dependent clauses were serving as nouns. Commas would be used for the latter when the descriptiveness was tangential to the noun. That I'm writing this would seem pedantic. This comment which I'm writing would seem pedantic. This comment, which may seem pointless, would seem pedantic.

[@islamidunya3720]

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[@banyamenatbeen116]

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