American English Vs. British English; VOCABULARY

In vocabulary, we can also find some important differences and it is important to consider depending on English-speaking country you are in and the people you are addressing. The street language or “slang” is also different in each country.

Some words may mean something in British English and the same word might be something else in American English or vice versa. Some of the AmE uses have come to be used in BrE in recent years.

There are thousands of different words and in the following list, you can see some examples:

                          

      AmE                                            BrE

chips	crips
pants	trousers
schedule	timeline
sick	ill
trash	rubbish
vacation	holiday
vest	suitcoat
antenna	aerial
fall	autumn
soccer	football
grain	corn
roast	joint
elevator	lift
lite	light
truck	lorry
homicide	murder
diaper	nappy
can	tin
candy	sweet
cab	taxi
cookie	biscuit
corn	maize
museum	art gallery
penitentiary	prison
subway	underground

And finally you can see more examples in the following video. I hope you like. 

Sources: “The English Language”, David Crystal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexpress/idioma/britishVSamerican.htm

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/British_and_American_English

By: María Durán Martínez.