Is American way of writing English different from others?

Question

In what way? How do I develop the skills to write that way?

Answer 1

The spelling of some words is different in American English; for example, words that in British English are spelt with the ending "-our" are spelt without the "u" in US English:

colour - color
labour - labor
neighbour - neighbor, etc.

And words which end in -re in British English are usually spelt with -er in US English:

centre - center
metre - meter (the distance)

(However, "meter" when it means a device for measuring something is spelt with -er at the end in both British and US English)

Aprt from this, written US will differ from English to reflect different speech uses: for example British people tend to say (and write) "in hospital", whilst Americans say "in the hospital" and would write it that way.

Other differences:

at school - in school
to visit - to visit with
trousers - pants
etc.

Answer 2

The best way is to read lots of articles written by Americans. The differences between Brit Eng and Am Eng are basically three fold:
1. Spelling
2. Vocabulary
3. Grammar

Just a few examples:
1. - others have given you examples
2. Am English (AE) pants = Brit Eng (BE) trousers
AE drugstore = BE chemists
AE buddy = BE mate
3. AE fill out a form = BE fill in a form
AE I've gotten = BE I've got

Answer 3

yes , it is . the difference mainly lies in ommitting the extra vowels and writing the words as they are pronounced:

e.g. in the word colour [Beng] , there is an extra vowel which is the 'u', so in American Eng it is ommitted.

you can find similar examples in the 'Longman' dictionary because he is the one who came up with the whole idea of writing [in American accent, that is].

there is also a book that tackles such aspect, it is called 'Improve your English' by Rosalind Birley.

it has thorough explanations about differences between B/A eng accents= including some grammatical and pronunciation mistakes people uauslly make.

i hope that helped!

Answer 4

Other than that there are different meanings of different words, for example trousers and pants , chips and french fries, rubbish bin and trash can....Color-colour , i moved to america after learning british english at my school so i had some problems like that...
I remember writing neighbour instead of neighbor in my english essay and losing like five points.
Does loosing change to losing too?

Answer 5

It depends on what you mean on American. Since we live in North America. U.S. writing is one way and depending which state you live in has their own accent. If you live in Canada - you have the another spelling of words. You can teach yourself.
with the vowels and con

Answer 6

Americans constantly lose their vowels and misplace their consonants: colour becomes color, travelled becomes traveled, emphasise becomes emphasize.

American English is more phonetic than UK English in its spelling. Use all the corrections suggested by Microsoft Word when you use the program [sic] and you'll be spelling like an American in no time!

Answer 7

Its just a different versionin terms of words and accent but the words are spelled the same. For example we would never use wanker or bloke or whatever you guys say, lol.

Answer 8

neighbor (American)
neighbour (British)

color (American)
colour (British)

organize (American)
organise (British)

program (American)
programme (British)

thank you (American)
thankyou (British)

jail (American)
gaoel (British)

I am Latin-American (Spanish is my mother tongue).

I studied American English, my husband is English, and I live in Australia. The thee countries have their own ways to spell.

So I type everything in Word, and depending on who I am addressing myself to, I go to "tools", and choose the kind of English (American, British, Australian)I want it to be written in. And the speller corrects everything.

Answer 9

We have bigger words in our dictionary and learn from a teacher

Answer 10

yes their spelling is sometimes different. Who knows why......