{"id":71674,"date":"2019-08-19T07:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71674"},"modified":"2019-08-19T07:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T07:33:50","slug":"american-and-british-english-differences-in-spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/american-and-british-english-differences-in-spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"American And British English | Differences In Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">A number of words end in <b>-our<\/b> in British English and <b>-or <\/b>in American English. Some words end in <b>-er <\/b>in American English and <b>-re<\/b> in British English. Many verbs which end in<b> -ize<\/b> in American English can be spelt in British English with<b> -ize <\/b>or <b>-ise.<\/b> In British English<b> -I<\/b> is doubled in an unstressed syllable before a suffix beginning with a vowel, while in American English it is not doubled.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the commonest words with different spellings are given below.<\/p>\n<p>Aluminum (American English) \/ Aluminium (British English)<\/p>\n<p>Analyze (AE) \/ Analyse (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Catalog(ue) (AE) Catalogue (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Center (AE) Centre (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Check (AE) Cheque (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Color (AE) Colour (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Defense (AE) Defence (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Dialog\/ dialogue (AE) Dialogue (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Favor (AE) Favour (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Flavor (AE) Flavour (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Honor (AE) Honour (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Jewelry (AE) Jewellery (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Labor (AE) Labour (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Meter (AE) Metre (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Pajamas (AE) Pyjamas (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Paralyze (AE) Paralyse (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Practice, practise (AE) Practise (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Program (AE) Programme (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Realize (AE) Realise\/ realize (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Theater (AE) Theatre (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Tire (AE) Tyre (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Traveler (AE) Traveller (BE)<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of words end in -our in British English and -or in American English. Some words end in -er in American English and -re in British English. Many verbs which end in -ize&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[750,751,753,754],"class_list":["post-71674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-american-and-british-english","tag-american-english","tag-american-english-spelling","tag-british-english-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71675,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71674\/revisions\/71675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}