American and British spelling differences (part 3)
Differences between the different varieties of English can be very confusing. Today we are on our final look at spelling differences between American and British English. You can check the two previous articles Part 1 or Part 2 CE vs SE: This one is a bit of a tricky one, as there aren’t really […]
English words of German origin
English is a Germanic language, which means it is in the same family as German. Because of this many words are very similar or the same in both languages. This article is not about those, it is about words that came to modern English from modern German. We also have other posts about words from […]
The other British languages
Most people think of the UK and English comes to mind. However, there are several other languages spoken here including local languages, sign languages and immigrant languages. Let’s take a look at all the other languages of the UK. Germanic languages Germanic languages are the most popular in the UK, they arrived in the […]
American and British spelling differences (part 2)
Last time we wrote about our/or, ise/ize and yse/ize. This time we are continuing with spelling differences between American and British English. RE vs ER: theatre and theater This is probably the best known difference between American and British spellings. Most words that end in an unstressed -er in British English are spelt with -re […]
