Although people still talk about different types of English – American English, British English – it is interesting to notice how close these are to each other nowadays. Any native speaker reading or listening to another "type" of English will understand almost every word. Of course, there are differences, and this article gives a few examples of the variation that still exists between American and British English. However, largely because of global communication, cinema, television and especially the internet, different types of English have influenced each other a lot recently. This is typically coming in one direction – from the USA to Britain – and it has changed our daily language significantly.
So, what did we find out? Well, for a start, there are some words that are still exclusively British or American, even though people from both countries understand them. British people have biscuits with their cup of tea or coffee, but Americans have cookies. We have cookies too in Britain, but they are a certain type of biscuit, such as chocolate chip cookies, where the original recipe is American. A British person goes on holiday, whereas an American takes a vacation; you visit a city centre in Britain but go downtown in the USA; British people join a queue to wait for something, but Americans wait in line.
A few words have different meanings across the two varieties of English, which could cause some embarrassment: Americans who are wearing pants definitely have their legs covered, but if a British person is dressed only in pants, they are in their underwear! And if you need to fill up your car with fuel, you can ask for gas in the USA, but you need to buy petrol in Britain, as 'gas' is not a liquid in British English.
Phrasal verbs (verbs with two or more words like take off or live up to) are another area of difference, and there are slightly fewer of them in the American English version of the English Vocabulary Profile. British and American speakers, for example, talk of a relationship breaking up, but Americans wouldn't use this phrasal verb to mean 'finish a school term' as we do in Britain. And British people buy food to take away whereas Americans have a take-out.
Overall, though, our research shows that British and American English are actually very similar. The 10 most common words (the, of, to, and, a, in, that, is, for and I) are the same in both countries, and looking at the 5,000 most common words in the UK, the vast majority of these words are also in the USA's top 5,000. Most of the differences are easy to explain – for example, it's not surprising that 'pounds' is much more common in British English, while 'dollars' is used more in the USA.
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