British English and American English are two widely spoken languages, with several variations in vocabulary, grammar, ...

Here is your decoder for the funniest and most useful British sayings ... Read up on the 10 American words that have verrrrrrry different meanings in Britain—you’re in for a laugh.

Though they technically are the same language, British English and American English have scores of differences—from the small, like the extra “U” in “colour,” to the large, like the very ...

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson both believed American and British English would grow so far apart we'd be unable to understand each other in a century or two; Jefferson, who literally ...

But when it comes to words that end in -ise in British English, Canadian English flows with the American version of using – ize. Therefore, while the British will write “organise” and ...

Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American English. By Ben Yagoda. Princeton University Press; 288 pages; $24.95 and £20 British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into ...