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In both British and American English, a person can make a decision; however, only in British English is the common variant take a decision also an option in a formal, serious, or official context. [38] The British often describe a person as tanned, where Americans would use tan. For instance, "she was tanned", rather than "she was tan". [39]
Several pronunciation patterns contrast American and British English accents. The following lists a few common ones. Most American accents are rhotic, preserving the historical /r/ phoneme in all contexts, while most British accents of England and Wales are non-rhotic, only preserving this sound before vowels but dropping it in all other contexts; thus, farmer rhymes with llama for Brits but ...
a small amount usu. in contrast to a larger one ("penny wise, pound foolish", common phrase in both British and American usage) (pl. pennies) a cent (esp. the coin) (penny-ante) trivial, small-time. period section of time menstruation row of the periodic table: punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence
See news presenter for a description of the different roles of a newscaster, an American news anchor, and a British newsreader. A dowel or fastener, usually made of plastic, that enables a weight-bearing screw to be attached to a wall (UK: wall plug ); Rawlplug (trademark)
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(informal) fish-and-chip shop (parts of Scotland, Ireland: chipper), also chippy (see also List of words having different meanings in British and American English) chinwag (slang) chat chuffed (informal) proud, satisfied, pleased. Sometimes intensified as well chuffed; cf. made up chunder vomit [33] chunter
UK pop star moved to New York, where she lives with her husband, ‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour, and her two children, in 2020
In both American and British usages, words normally spelled -ll usually drop the second l when used as prefixes or suffixes, for example all→almighty, altogether; full→handful, useful; well→welcome, welfare; chill→chilblain. Both the British fulfil and the American fulfill never use -ll-in the middle (i.e., *fullfill and *fullfil are ...