English in 30 Seconds: Common American and British Spelling Differences

Most words in American and British English are spelled the same. However, there are a few important differences. A video for people who are learning English from http://www.in30.tv.

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[MrJST87]

Americans spell everything wrong and have no consistency in their language at all. Why take the U out of colour and honour but not out of glamour or contour? Why take the UE off the end of analogue but not off of monologue?

Why change the C to an S in licence and defence but not in silence and commence, or any other words?

Britain owns.

Rule Britannia.

[chap0syoutuification]

British English? No just English, we created the language.

[MaroonBugUK]

America has fucked up our language so much; it is no longer English.

[xXMrSkimpyXx]

wow, there r a lot of bastard brits in here

[sorasgirl0]

@MrJST87 We aren't spelling it WRONG, just differently.

[nostalgiamelancolia1]

A lot of places in the States also spell "Theatre"I've been through a lot of states throughout the USA ,and seen this word spelled like this.I'm not American,but I can say that I've traveled a lot more than what they do in their own country.

[oJKBo]

@MrJST87 analog comes from analogon, monolog should be the spelling as it comes from monologos. We didnt change a c to an s we changed a t to an s as license comes from licentem and in defense we changed nothing, the word comes from defensus. You obviously know nothing about the language you speak. Why does. Should capsize be capsise in british english? after all it ends in ize and the suffix ize is ise in british english. No, it shouldnt, origin, origin, origin

[oJKBo]

@MrJST87 youre an ignorant retard. The U doesnt belong in color, the word comes from colos and neither does it belong in honor which comes from honorem, contour should be contor but isnt in either for whatever reason, glamour /is/ glamor in american english however that comes from a scottish variation on grammar. English itself isnt consistent, words come from all different etymologies, some should be -ise and some should be -ize, in both countries consistency was attempted by choosing one

[1stLordTheAdmiralty1]

The reason why words are spelled different in the English version is because the English Language is 40% old french.The Americans Spell words the way they are pronounced and in some cases pronounce words the way the are spelled Like the Word lieutenant which is a french word that's why in England we pronounce it as LEFT-TENANT .There are many examples of this in the way Americans speak and write English

[chap0syoutuification]

@Hirotoro4692 Although you could say that Latin was formed through other languages. You could trace all languages back to caveman grunts. The thing is that we based the English language on lots of other languages. We created it in that sense. The US took the English language, removed some 'u's etcetera and called it American English.

[startrekwarsmixguy]

@Hirotoro4692 billions of people speak mandarin, spanish, millions speak french and german, what's your point

[Hirotoro4692]

@startrekwarsmixguy given the fact billions of people across earth speak english, it's too late for us to be 'picky'. It's now a shared, global language.