美式英语、英式英语大比拼

AMERICAN USAGE BRITISH USAGE

DIFFERENT WORDS - SAME MEANING

1. Elevator

2. Trunk (of a car)

3. Subway

4. Scotch

5. Period

6. Cookie

7. Gas/Gasoline

8. Kid(s)

9. Cell phone

10. Sidewalk

11. Soccer

12. Football

13. Fall (the season, not the action)

14. Vacation

15. School terminology:

a. Semester - there are two in a year, allowing for a break over Christmas and the new year.

b. Freshman - a student in the first year of high school or university.

c. Sophomore - a student in the second year.

d. Junior - a third year student, or a student in the year before the final year of university or high school.

e. Senior - a student in their last year.

f. High School - secondary education

g. Public school - state run

h. Private School - private

SAME WORD - DIFFERENT MEANING

1. Fag - a derogatory word for a homosexual man

2. Period - a full stop, (also a length of time or the hour-long lessons into which the school day is divided - these meanings apply in British English too).

3. To table (something) - to put an issue or problem aside for later, usually because it's too difficult to deal with.

4. Tea - the drink, not a meal.

SPELLING

Basically the Americans like to make it as simple as possible - it doesn't take much imagination to figure out why.

· "ER" - e.g. center, theater, meter

·"L" - e.g. jewelry, traveling, marvelous, councilor

· "Z not S" - e.g. symbolize, modernize, urbanization, organizer

·"O not OU" - e.g. neighbor, honor, favorite, color, harbor

·"M not MME" "N not NNE" - e.g. program, ton

1. tire

2. pickax

3. defens