Comparison of American and British English (English Wikipedia)

Blunt, Jerry (1994) "Special English Words with American Equivalents" Stage Dialects Dramatic Publishing Company, Woodstock, Illinois, page 59, ISBN 0-87129-331-5; originally published in 1967
Allan A. Metcalf (2000). How We Talk: American Regional English Today. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 90. ISBN 0-618-04362-4.
Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage. Penguin. 2002. p. 728. ISBN 9780877796336.

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

"Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples". BBC News. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
"How to use inverted commas". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

bbc.com (Global: 26^th place; English: 23^rd place)

Savage, Mark (14 September 2011). "Mick Jagger on SuperHeavy: 'Everyone subsumed their egos'". BBC News. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
Sweeney, Sabrina (22 November 2012). "First Aid Kit: A band of contradictions". BBC News. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

bipm.org (Global: 1,781^st place; English: 2,481^st place)

International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (PDF) (8th ed.), p. 130, ISBN 92-822-2213-6, archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-04, retrieved 2021-12-16

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

David Else (2007). British language & culture. Lonely Planet. ISBN 9781864502862.
Gabay, J. Jonathan (2007) Gabay's copywriters' compendium: the definitive professional writer's guide Elsevier, Oxford, England, page 144, ISBN 978-0-7506-8320-3
Baugh, Albert Croll and Cable, Thomas (1993) A History of the English Language (4th edition) Prentice-Hall, New York, page 389, ISBN 0-415-09379-1
Hargis, Toni Summers (2006) Rules, Britannia: An Insider's Guide to Life in the United Kingdom St. Martin's Press, New York, page 63, ISBN 978-0-312-33665-3
Hargis, Toni Summers (2006) Rules, Britannia: An Insider's Guide to Life in the United Kingdom St. Martin's Press, New York, page 64, ISBN 978-0-312-33665-3
Houghton Mifflin Company (2006). The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 94–. ISBN 0-618-60499-5. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; English: 64^th place)

Cunningham, John. "Why Do Some People Call Football "Soccer"?". Britannica. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2020. One of the best known, that soccer is an Americanism.

bsa.org.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine see end of numbered item 9

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

dictionary.cambridge.org

"While and whilst – English Grammar Today – Cambridge Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Cambridge University Press 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
"queue". Cambridge English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
"put/stick your oar in". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
"(not) a ha'porth of difference". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

dictionaries.cambridge.org

"two cents/two cents' worth". Cambridge Dictionary of American English. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

commnet.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

grammar.ccc.commnet.edu

"The names of sports teams, on the other hand, are treated as plurals, regardless of the form of that name." Archived 2014-10-16 at the Wayback Machine

dearsportsfan.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Why is 50% written .500 and said "five hundred" in sports?". Dear Sports Fan. 25 June 2015.

direct.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 8,019^th place)

"Highway Code: Directgov—Travel and transport". Directgov. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2010.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Garcia-Marchena, Oscar (2020-07-13). "David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Third edit". Lexis. doi:10.4000/lexis.4512. ISSN 1951-6215.

grammarphobia.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"The "poke" in "slowpoke"". Grammarphobia. 6 May 2013. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.

justia.com (Global: 673^rd place; English: 333^rd place)

law.justia.com

"2023 Indiana Code :: Title 9. Motor Vehicles :: Article 21. Traffic Regulation :: Chapter 8. Vehicle Operation :: 9-21-8-5. Overtaking and Passing; Limitations; Exceptions". Justia Law.

learnersdictionary.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Drop". Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

legislation.gov.uk (Global: 728^th place; English: 375^th place)

"Education and Skills Act 2008". legislation.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2011.

lexico.com (Global: 2,946^th place; English: 2,042^nd place)

"What are inverted commas?". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-07.

macmillandictionary.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"rubber, definition 3". Macmillan Dictionary. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2013.

matadornetwork.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Naturally, the internet is chockablock with clickbait pages for this, e.g., "50 British phrases Americans just don't understand" Archived 2020-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, matadornetwork.com

merriam-webster.com (Global: 425^th place; English: 373^rd place)

Sokolowski, Peter. "Soop vs. Soup" (Video). Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015. Noah Webster: the man who changed the way we spell... up to a point.
"driver's licence". merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 8 May 2019.

number10.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 7,673^rd place)

"PM's Press Conference". 10 Downing Street. 26 July 2005. Archived from the original on 16 April 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.

oup.com (Global: 292^nd place; English: 233^rd place)

"Cookbook is now often used in BrE". Oup.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2010.

ox.ac.uk (Global: 541^st place; English: 356^th place)

"University of Oxford style guide". University of Oxford Public Affairs Directorate. 2016.

oxforddictionaries.com (Global: 1,689^th place; English: 1,562^nd place)

en.oxforddictionaries.com

"rightward – Definition of rightward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"upward – Definition of upward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"forward – Definition of forward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"bill". Oxford Living Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2018.

quickanddirtytips.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Fogarty, Mignon (January 16, 2020). "'Could Care Less' Versus 'Couldn't Care Less'". Quick and Dirty Tips. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2018.

spt.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Celebrating Glasgow Subway at 125".

study.com (Global: 8,173^rd place; English: 7,751^st place)

Forsyth, Edith (2023-05-07). "Monetary Value Overview & Examples". study.com. Retrieved 2023-05-07.

sussex.ac.uk (Global: 7,749^th place; English: 5,035^th place)

informatics.sussex.ac.uk

Trask, Larry (1997). "The Colon". Guide to Punctuation. University of Sussex. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Greenslade, Roy (13 February 2008). "Headline Commas, Who Needs Them?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
"times". Guardian and Observer style guide. Guardian Media Group. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10.

timesonline.co.uk (Global: 437^th place; English: 317^th place)

Brunskill, Ian (2017). The Times Style Guide: A guide to English usage (2 ed.). Glasgow: HarperCollins UK. ISBN 9780008146184. OCLC 991389792. Formerly available online: "The Times Online Style Guide". News UK. 2011. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011.

usatoday.com (Global: 55^th place; English: 36^th place)

Minzesheimer, Bob (22 December 2008). "Dickens' classic 'Christmas Carol' still sings to us". USA Today. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2010.

uwbadgers.com (Global: 8,174^th place; English: 4,003^rd place)

"This week in Badger Volleyball: Oct. 3–10". Wisconsin Badgers. University of Wisconsin. 5 October 2016. ...has hit better than 36 percent in all four Big Ten matches this season, including two matches over 50 percent.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Sokolowski, Peter. "Soop vs. Soup" (Video). Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015. Noah Webster: the man who changed the way we spell... up to a point.
"rubber, definition 3". Macmillan Dictionary. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
"rightward – Definition of rightward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"upward – Definition of upward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"forward – Definition of forward in English by Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"Cookbook is now often used in BrE". Oup.com. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
"bill". Oxford Living Dictionaries – English. Archived from the original on September 25, 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
Cunningham, John. "Why Do Some People Call Football "Soccer"?". Britannica. Archived from the original on 31 January 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2020. One of the best known, that soccer is an Americanism.
Naturally, the internet is chockablock with clickbait pages for this, e.g., "50 British phrases Americans just don't understand" Archived 2020-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, matadornetwork.com
"PM's Press Conference". 10 Downing Street. 26 July 2005. Archived from the original on 16 April 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2007.
"queue". Cambridge English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
Minzesheimer, Bob (22 December 2008). "Dickens' classic 'Christmas Carol' still sings to us". USA Today. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
"Americanisms: 50 of your most noted examples". BBC News. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
"put/stick your oar in". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
"(not) a ha'porth of difference". Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 4 August 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
"two cents/two cents' worth". Cambridge Dictionary of American English. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
"Drop". Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
Fogarty, Mignon (January 16, 2020). "'Could Care Less' Versus 'Couldn't Care Less'". Quick and Dirty Tips. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2018.
"The "poke" in "slowpoke"". Grammarphobia. 6 May 2013. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
"Education and Skills Act 2008". legislation.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
"Highway Code: Directgov—Travel and transport". Directgov. Archived from the original on 6 January 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
"The names of sports teams, on the other hand, are treated as plurals, regardless of the form of that name." Archived 2014-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (PDF) (8th ed.), p. 130, ISBN 92-822-2213-6, archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-06-04, retrieved 2021-12-16
"What are inverted commas?". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on 2020-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine see end of numbered item 9
"times". Guardian and Observer style guide. Guardian Media Group. 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-07-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
Brunskill, Ian (2017). The Times Style Guide: A guide to English usage (2 ed.). Glasgow: HarperCollins UK. ISBN 9780008146184. OCLC 991389792. Formerly available online: "The Times Online Style Guide". News UK. 2011. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011.
Trask, Larry (1997). "The Colon". Guide to Punctuation. University of Sussex. Archived from the original on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

search.worldcat.org

Garcia-Marchena, Oscar (2020-07-13). "David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Third edit". Lexis. doi:10.4000/lexis.4512. ISSN 1951-6215.
Huddleston, Rodney D.; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43146-8. OCLC 46641801.
Brunskill, Ian (2017). The Times Style Guide: A guide to English usage (2 ed.). Glasgow: HarperCollins UK. ISBN 9780008146184. OCLC 991389792. Formerly available online: "The Times Online Style Guide". News UK. 2011. Archived from the original on 4 August 2011.

youtube.com (Global: 13^th place; English: 14^th place)

"What does a Silencer Sound Like?". YouTube. 10 July 2019.

Comparison of American and British English (English Wikipedia)

archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11th place; English: 10th place)

bbc.com (Global: 26th place; English: 23rd place)

bipm.org (Global: 1,781st place; English: 2,481st place)

books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)

britannica.com (Global: 37th place; English: 64th place)

bsa.org.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

cambridge.org (Global: 209th place; English: 151st place)

dictionary.cambridge.org

dictionaries.cambridge.org

commnet.edu (Global: low place; English: low place)

grammar.ccc.commnet.edu

dearsportsfan.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

direct.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 8,019th place)

doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)

grammarphobia.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

justia.com (Global: 673rd place; English: 333rd place)

law.justia.com

learnersdictionary.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

legislation.gov.uk (Global: 728th place; English: 375th place)

lexico.com (Global: 2,946th place; English: 2,042nd place)

macmillandictionary.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

matadornetwork.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

merriam-webster.com (Global: 425th place; English: 373rd place)

number10.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 7,673rd place)

oup.com (Global: 292nd place; English: 233rd place)

ox.ac.uk (Global: 541st place; English: 356th place)

oxforddictionaries.com (Global: 1,689th place; English: 1,562nd place)

en.oxforddictionaries.com

quickanddirtytips.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

spt.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

study.com (Global: 8,173rd place; English: 7,751st place)

sussex.ac.uk (Global: 7,749th place; English: 5,035th place)

informatics.sussex.ac.uk

theguardian.com (Global: 16th place; English: 11th place)

timesonline.co.uk (Global: 437th place; English: 317th place)

usatoday.com (Global: 55th place; English: 36th place)

uwbadgers.com (Global: 8,174th place; English: 4,003rd place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)

search.worldcat.org

youtube.com (Global: 13th place; English: 14th place)

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; English: 10^th place)

bbc.com (Global: 26^th place; English: 23^rd place)

bipm.org (Global: 1,781^st place; English: 2,481^st place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; English: 64^th place)

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

direct.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 8,019^th place)

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

justia.com (Global: 673^rd place; English: 333^rd place)

legislation.gov.uk (Global: 728^th place; English: 375^th place)

lexico.com (Global: 2,946^th place; English: 2,042^nd place)

merriam-webster.com (Global: 425^th place; English: 373^rd place)

number10.gov.uk (Global: low place; English: 7,673^rd place)

oup.com (Global: 292^nd place; English: 233^rd place)

ox.ac.uk (Global: 541^st place; English: 356^th place)

oxforddictionaries.com (Global: 1,689^th place; English: 1,562^nd place)

study.com (Global: 8,173^rd place; English: 7,751^st place)

sussex.ac.uk (Global: 7,749^th place; English: 5,035^th place)

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

timesonline.co.uk (Global: 437^th place; English: 317^th place)

usatoday.com (Global: 55^th place; English: 36^th place)

uwbadgers.com (Global: 8,174^th place; English: 4,003^rd place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

youtube.com (Global: 13^th place; English: 14^th place)