There is an old saying that America and Britain are “two nations divided by a common language.” The most noticeable difference between AmE and BrE is probably vocabulary, and there are hundreds of everyday words that are different. As a long-time learner of English, I...
An easy tip to distinguish AmE from BrE is that American spelling is fairly shorter and more straightforward. This is because AmE tends to simplify spelling of certain words in accordance with the phonetic principle. Simply put, words are more likely to be spelled as...
‘A lot’ is a piece of land, so if there is a lot of something, it means there is a large amount of it. In everyday conversations, ‘a lot’ is actually used… a lot. Here are a few examples of how the phrase is so commonly used (if not overused): "I like dark chocolate a...
As a long-time learner of the English language, I have always been fascinated by how wide-ranging the English vocabulary is to express one single meaning.
As you probably know, there are differences between American and British English. Since this is a huge field of study, I’d like to break it down into three categories, namely vocabulary, grammar, and spelling.
