some idiomatic expressions + idioms using animals
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BRITISH ENGLISH vs AMERICAN ENGLISH
«The Americans imported English wholesale, forged it to meet their own needs, then exported their own words back across the Atlantic to be incorporated in the way we speak over here. Those seemingly innocuous words caused fury at the time.» - read further
note:
the British-E. form is on the left, the American-E. form on the right
different words:
different spelling:
1. -our/-or
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behaviour (Br) - behavior (Am)
neighbour - neighbor
colour - color
2. s /c
to practise- to practice
3. s / z
socialise - socialize
gobalisation - globalization
realise or realize (Br) - realize (Am)
4. re / er
centre - center
5. double or single consonant
travelled - traveled
It is true to say that there is usually no doubling of the gfinal consonant when the preceding vowel is unstressed (‘enter’ becomes ‘entering/entered’; ‘visit’ becomes ‘visiting/visited’) or when the preceding vowel is written with two letters (‘tread’ becomes ‘treading/treaded’).
However, with some final consonants, even in cases when the preceding vowel is unstressed (so you would think that there would be no doubling), doubling does occur in standard received British English but is not favoured in American English.
different grammar (and other) rulespresent perfect/ past simple:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv123.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1837_aae/page46.shtml
American English vs. British English - by Doinita
attorney ------------------- barrister
cookie -------------------- biscuit
parking lot ---------------- car park
crazy, insane -------------- mad
diaper -------------------- nappy
corn ---------------------- maize
Source: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/british-american.htm
