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🇬🇧 British vs American Spellings 🇺🇸
English is one language with many flavours or should I say flavors? 😄
Here’s a quick guide to help you out:
📝 British vs American
Colour → Color Flavour → Flavor Humour → Humor Neighbour → Neighbor Honour → Honor Armour → Armor Odour → Odor
Apologise → Apologize Organise → Organize Analyse → Analyze Paralyse → Paralyze Recognise → Recognize
Travelled → Traveled Travelling → Traveling Leukaemia → Leukemia Manoeuvre → Maneuver
Oestrogen → Estrogen Paediatric → Pediatric Analogue → Analog Catalogue → Catalog Dialogue → Dialog
✍🏽There are rules guiding some of these spellings. A word as a noun may be spelled differently as a verb, still in British, and may be unchanged in American. It takes practice to know and understand these things.
Generally, British colonies use the British style unless otherwise instructed for academic or blog writers.
If your client or the audience you're writing for is British, please stick to it; if American, stick to it.
And if you were not given any style, be consistent with one. Don't mix British and American in your writing.
If you need help editing your written work or have any questions, send a message. Thank you for reading.
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