* British English ( BrE ) is the form of English used in the United Kingdom.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

BrE: The Clash are a well-known band ; AmE: The Clash is a well-known band.

BrE: Spain are the champions ; AmE: Spain is the champion.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

In BrE, both irregular and regular forms are current, but for some words ( such as smelt and leapt ) there is a strong tendency towards the irregular forms, especially by users of Received Pronunciation.

( The two-syllable form learnèd, usually written without the grave, is used as an adjective to mean " educated " or to refer to academic institutions in both BrE and AmE.

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

Dynamite is an explosive material based on nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth ( AmE: kieselgur ; BrE: kieselguhr ), or another absorbent substance such as powdered shells, clay, sawdust, or wood pulp.

The plough ( BrE ) or plow ( AmE ; see spelling differences ; ) is a tool ( or machine ) used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting.

When music on two staves is joined by a brace, or is intended to be played at once by a single performer ( usually a keyboard instrument or the harp ), a great stave ( BrE ) or grand staff ( AmE ) is created.

Head cheese ( AmE ), or brawn ( BrE ), is a cold cut that originated in Europe.

* A garter belt ( AmE ), or suspender belt ( BrE ), is the most common way of holding up stockings.

* railway station-Invariably used, whereas " train station " or just " station " is more popular in some BrE.

An aluminum can, or can, is a container for packaging made primarily of aluminum ( BrE aluminium ).

* A jewelry ( AmE ) or jewellery ( BrE ) box, is a box for trinkets or jewels.

The Paediatric Glasgow Coma Scale ( BrE ) ( also known as Pediatric Glasgow Coma Score ( AmE ) or simply PGCS ) is the equivalent of the Glasgow Coma Scale ( GCS ) used to assess the mental state of adult patients.

The Shire horse is a breed of draught horse ( BrE ) or draft horse ( AmE ).

Microcytic anemia ( BrE: anaemia ) is a generic term for any type of anemia characterized by small red blood cells.

The ( first ) ' e ' of these words is pronounced / ɛ / ( open-mid front unrounded vowel ) in BrE and AmE, but rather / e / ( close-mid front unrounded vowel ) in SLE.

* superscript < sup > A2 </ sup > after a word indicates the BrE pronunciation of the word is a common variant in AmE

* superscript < sup > B2 </ sup > after a word indicates the AmE pronunciation of the word is a common variant in BrE

' In BrE, " to put someone up " means to let someone stay in one's house for a few days.

Differences in pronunciation between American English ( AmE ) and British English ( BrE ) can be divided into:

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

In most varieties of English, schwa mostly occurs in unstressed syllables ( exceptions include BrE concerted ), but in New Zealand English and South African English the high front lax vowel ( as in the word bit ) has shifted open and back to sound like schwa, and these dialects include both stressed and unstressed schwas.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.