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Taken together, the Micropædia and Macropædia comprise roughly 40 million words and 24, 000 images.

The two-volume index has 2, 350 pages, listing the 228, 274 topics covered in the Britannica, together with 474, 675 subentries under those topics.

The Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American ; for example, it uses colour ( not color ), centre ( not center ), and encyclopaedia ( not encyclopedia ).

However, there are exceptions to this rule, such as defense rather than defence.

Common alternative spellings are provided with cross-references such as " Color: see Colour.