What is difference between American and British English?

Answer 1

Some words, phrases and the spelling are different. The accents are also different.

Answer 2

British English is more proper.
American English is more slang and less structured. Now, we are taught proper sentence structure in English and the use of words, nouns, verbs, adverbs, etc. But, we tend to talk and write different than we were taught.
Example: Which is the correct sentence?
I am in the yard!
I am on the yard!
I not have the answer, but, I would understand both.

Answer 3

The difference between American and Brittish English is this:
We say toilet, Americans say loo
We say Knickers Americans say pants
We say shopping Americans say groceries

Also they spell differently to us Britts, putting in z's instead of s's...its just one of those things, we have different words to mean the same thing thats all.

Answer 4

Not a lot.............and English is going to take over the world, so it would really help if we could all agree to iron out the few differences there are. The ideal is worldwide peace. While we must accept the right of people to speak the language of their choice, creating divisions for the sake of it is not a good idea.

Answer 5

A lot of the words are different for the same things...

In London you can get an American/English - English/American Dictionary... probably you can get one off of Amazon.com, too.

Answer 6

Same as the difference in Football and American Footbal....

Answer 7

the british english is the right way of writing & talking, they are the true english.

Answer 8

1. Spelling
2 . The names of certain things have been changed.
3. Some verb usages

Answer 9

Same use of words but different meanings for instance in the UK fag means cigarettes and in the U.S it means an offensive term towards a homosexual

Answer 10

An accent and usage of words. The loo is a potty. Nickers is pants.