CanyoutellthedifferencebetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish?Checkoutthesewords,thentelluswhichvarietyofEnglishyoutendtousebyleavingacommentbelow. 　　Words 　　British-American 　　1.Pavement–sidewalk 　　2.Rubbish–trash 　　3.Football–soccer 　　4.Biscuit–cookie 　　5.Sweets–candy 　　6.Tube–subway 　　7.Fullstop–period 　　8.Autumn-fall 　　9.Flat–apartment 　　10.Lift–elevator 　　11.Chips–fries 　　12.Petrol–Gas 　　13.Motorway–highway 　　14.Jam–jelly 　　15.Cinema–movietheatre 　　16.Trousers–pants 　　17.Carpark–parkinglot 　　18.Jumper–sweater 　　19.Holiday–vacation 　　20.Postcode–zipcode 　　Discuss 　　Overthepast400years,theformofthelanguageusedintheUnitedStates–andthatusedintheUnitedKingdomandtherestoftheBritishIsleshavedivergedinmanyways,leadingtothedialectsnowcommonlyreferredtoasAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish.Differencesbetweenthetwoincludepronunciation,grammar,vocabulary,spelling,punctuation,idioms,formattingofdatesandnumbers,andsoon.Asmallnumberofwordshavecompletelydifferentmeaningsbetweenthetwodialectsorareevenunknownornotusedinoneofthedialects. 　　ThisdivergencebetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishoncecausedGeorgeBernardShawtosaythattheUnitedStatesandUnitedKingdomare"twocountriesdividedbyacommonlanguage";asimilarcommentisascribedtoWinstonChurchill.Likewise,OscarWildewrote,"WehavereallyeverythingincommonwithAmericanowadays,except,ofcourse,thelanguage."