Communicating with friends across the pond is a perpetual problem. American and British spelling differences include simple changes that affect the meaning, pronunciation and use of words. Today, native and non-native English speakers are the largest group in the world, but the dialects they speak are shockingly different. Linguists have pinpointed the transition to today’s English to sometime during the 1800s. Noah Webster, the creator of the first and most prestigious American dictionary, published his first lexicon dedicated to US spelling and pronunciation in 1828. British spelling differences and pronunciations are easy to see for ESL students and anyone who interacts with English speakers across the ocean. Here are several examples of common British spelling differences and their US counterparts:
UK vs US spelling: Separated by a Common Language
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