The same word may be used differently in British and American English.<\/p>\n
In informal American English, real is often used instead of really before adjectives and adverbs.<\/p>\n
Sure<\/strong><\/p>\n Sure is often used to mean certainly in an informal style. This is common in American English.<\/p>\n Slow is used as an adverb in road signs, and informally after go and some other verbs especially in American English.<\/p>\n Examples are: go slow, drive slow.<\/p>\n In British English, any more is usually written as two separate words. In American English, it is often written as one word anymore when it refers to time (= any longer). It usually comes in end position.<\/p>\n In British English, around and about are both used to refer to movements or positions that are not very clear or definite: \u2018here and there\u2019, \u2018in lots of places\u2019, \u2018in different parts of\u2019, \u2018somewhere in\u2019 and similar ideas.<\/p>\n In American English, about is not used with this meaning. Americans normally use around.<\/p>\n Note that in American English, about is mostly used to mean \u2018approximately\u2019.<\/p>\n The names of illnesses are usually uncountable in standard British English. The can be used informally before the names of some common illnesses such as the measles, the flu; others have no article.<\/p>\n The words for some minor ailments are countable: e.g. a cold, a sore throat, a headache. However, toothache, earache, stomach-ache and backache are more often uncountable in British English. In American English, these words are generally countable.<\/p>\n In British English, the is unusual in the titles of the principal public buildings and organisations of a town.<\/p>\n Oxford University (NOT the Oxford University) In American English, the is more often used in such cases.<\/p>\n The San Diego Zoo In British English, the plural holidays is often used for the \u2018big holiday\u2019 of the year. In other cases, British people normally use the singular holiday.<\/p>\n Americans normally use the word vacation. In British English, vacation is mainly used for the periods when universities are not teaching. Holiday is used in American English for a day of publicly observed celebration whether or not people work on it.<\/p>\n Ill is often used to mean \u2018unwell\u2019 in British English. In American English, ill is unusual except in a formal style. Ill is most common in predicative position.<\/p>\n In attributive position many British people prefer to use sick. Sick is also the normal informal American word for \u2018unwell\u2019.<\/p>\n In British English, both active and passive forms of drown can be used to talk about accidental drowning.<\/p>\n In American English, only active forms are used to talk about accidental drowning.<\/p>\n The verbs awake and awaken are irregular in British English, but can be regular in American English.<\/p>\n Awake \u2013 awoke \u2013 awoken (GB\/US) Awaken is regular in both British and American English.<\/p>\n Awaken \u2013 awakened \u2013 awakened (GB\/US)<\/p>\n In British English, the verb bath is used to mean \u2018wash oneself in a bath tub\u2019.<\/p>\n Children have to be made to bath regularly.<\/p>\n The verb bath is not normally used in American English. In an informal style, we usually say have a bath (GB) or take a bath (British and American).<\/p>\n In British English, bathe can mean \u2018swim for pleasure\u2019. 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Any more<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Around and about<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Illnesses<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Place names<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nHull Station (NOT the Hull Station)
\nSalisbury Cathedral
\nBirmingham Airport
\nBristol Zoo
\nManchester City Council<\/p>\n
\nThe Detroit City Council<\/p>\nHoliday and holidays<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Ill and sick<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Drown<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Awake and awaken<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAwake \u2013 awaked \u2013 awaked (US)<\/p>\nBath and bathe<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Bathe<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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