hi my name is David Claussen with English-Quickly.com

and I just started a new Tumblr blog and I found this cool poster

with British vs. American English and I made this blog here learn English quickly and I put

some of my videos on it

so let's learn some of the differences between

British and American English

and

I am going to give you my British accent and it isn't

good but

you can laugh

all right in America of we say apartment

and in Britain they will say a flat that is a flat there in America a cab

and Britain they would say a taxi, could I get a taxii please, I would like a taxi

but also in America we will say taxi in America a can this is a can or in Britain they would say a tin in America we'll say a tin can

cookie in America, hello I would like a biscuit could we have some biscuits with our tea please

corn

maize I would like some maize for corn

a diaper this for a baby

a nappy, I would like a nappy be an eraser in America

and in English this is a rubber of a talker of a

rubber in America is something

different I'll tell you in another lesson we say fall they say autumn, the autumn is beautiful here in fall the autumn weather a faucet

and they will say a tap, that's a tap

we also in America will say this is tap water the water is tap water

in America it's gas or gasoline in England it's petrol the Petrol highway motorway

a hood of the car, the bonnet that's the bonnet mail, I got the mail today the post, that's the post

a movie a film, film, pajamas

pyjamas, kind of the same

English pronunciation I think

I lived in England a long time ago so

I'm not sure we say sneakers, they say trainers I'm going to put all my trainers and the big one we say soccer and the whole world than the

says football we will play a football match, stove

or cooker a trunk on a car, a boot, a vacation holiday a vest a waistecoat America it's

candy we say sweet, I would like a sweet, chips crisps

closet a wardrobe

although people in America will say wardrobe too sell drapes curtains

but in America we will say curtains I grew up saying curtains

overalls

dungarees, dungarees an elevator and a lift, I would like to go up the lift they use a subway underground or tube, a tire a tyre

truck a lorry and we will go in our lorry windshield wiper

windscreen wiper

yard a garden, the garden

a zipper

or a zip, a flashlight of torch

fries chips, garbage

the rubbish, jello jelly

a license plate

a number plate a line in America a queue pants

trousers, scotch tape sellotape sidewalk

and the pavement, so that's the difference between British and American English

a few vocabulary words

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