English to American English

[Van1lla ™]

How many words can you find that are spelt differently like colour and color. Or words like loft and attic.

 

[Ste]

Favourite and favorite.

 

[Callum93]

I can't think of any others, but nice topic.

 

[Watch Me Sink]

Boot and Trunk
Bloody Hell and Holy Crap

 

[Murder he Wrote]

Apologize and Apologise.

I find the firefox spellchecker quite annoying these days. It's got me typing everything in American English ~frown~

 

[TheExoticFish.com]

What's wrong with that ? LoL

 

[aзSuperDuck ™]

Well out grammar will you know go down the drain!

But yer firefox kept making me change Colour to Color lol

 

[Nebulous]

trash can (american)
rubbish bin (brittish)

 

[CyberFreak]

Car Park and Parking lot -D-

 

[Murder he Wrote]

Rubber and Eraser. ~razz~

 

[aзSuperDuck ™]

Pants and Trousers

 

[TheExoticFish.com]

Underwear and nickers (I think I spelled that correctly)

 

[Van1lla ™]

Knickers* -D-

 

[TheExoticFish.com]

I was close -razz-

 

[Ste]

An obvious one - Football and Soccer.

 

[Van1lla ™]

Mobile Phone - Cell Phone

 

[TheExoticFish.com]

I don't think that counts because I hear people call it both all the time.

 

[Nebulous]

Rubber and Eraser. ~razz~

Lol a rubber here is a condom

 

[Ste]

Rubber and Eraser. ~razz~

Lol a rubber here is a condom

Some people call it that over here to. -lol-

 

[Van1lla ™]

I don't think that counts because I hear people call it both all the time.

I never hear anyone over here call it their cell or cell phone. -~-