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.

Throwback uniforms, throwback jerseys ( AmE ) or retro kits ( BrE ) are sports uniforms styled to resemble the uniforms that a team wore in the past.

These words, which are also pronounced with a diphthong as / teɪk /, / meɪd /… in BrE and AmE, are generally pronounced with the monophthong / eː /, as / teːk /, / meːd /… (/ e /-close-mid front unrounded vowel, / ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel )

When “ p ”,” t ” or “ k ” occur at the beginning of a word ( as in “ pull ”, “ take ” and “ kit ”) or a stressed syllable ( as in the second syllable of “ potato ”), they are aspirated ( pronounced,, …) in BrE and AmE.

These two sounds of “ th ” ( in and ) are fricatives (-voiceless dental fricative ,-voiced dental fricative ) in BrE and AmE, but plosives-( voiceless dental plosive ) and ( voiced dental plosive ) respectively-in SLE.

The “ sh ” sound (- voiceless postalveolar fricative ) in “ ship ” and “ ch ” sound () in “ chin / tʃɪn /” are produced further back in the mouth in SLE than in BrE and AmE.

* SLE sometimes uses longer written forms in speech where shortened forms are used in BrE and AmE.

* Some syllables elided in BrE and AmE are prononced in SLE.

* Some unstressed syllables reduced to / ə / in BrE and AmE are pronounced / a ( ː )/ in SLE

* Certain unstressed syllables reduced to / ə / in BrE and AmE / are pronounced / o /,/ u /, / e /, / i / etc.

* In BrE and AmE, the letter's ' at the end of plurals are pronounced /- z / after voiced sounds like ‘ b / b /’, ‘ d / d /’, g / g /, ‘ m / m /’, n / n /, ‘ ng / ŋ /’, r /( r )/, v / v /, w / ʊ /, l / l /, ‘ th / ð /’ and vowel sound.

( However, the's ' added to words ending in voiced sounds ‘ p / p /’, ‘ t / t /’, ‘ k / k /’, ‘ f / f /’, ‘ th / θ /’ are pronounced / s / even in BrE and AmE.

* The ' ed ' added to form the past tense of verbs ending in voiceless sounds like ‘ p / p /’, ‘ k / k /’, ‘ f / f /’, ‘ s / s /’, ‘ sh / ʃ /’, ‘ ch / tʃ /’, ‘ th / θ /’, though pronounced /- t / in BrE and AmE, are pronounced /- ɖ / by some Sri Lankans.

( 1 ) However, when words like ' intimate ' are used as verbs, the pronunciation is different (/ ˈɪntəˌmeɪt / ) in BrE and AmE.

( 2 ) Though the letter's ' in words like ' close ', ' use ' and ' house ' is pronounced / z / in BrE and AmE when they are used as verbs, it becomes / s / when they are nouns or adjectives.

Most longer-ate verbs are pronounced the same in AmE and BrE, but a few have first-syllable stress in BrE and second-syllable stress in AmE: elongate, infiltrate < sup > A2 </ sup >, remonstrate < sup > A2 </ sup >, tergiversate.

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.

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.

* BrE first-syllable stress: adult < sup > A2, B2 </ sup >, ballet < sup > A2 </ sup >, baton, beret, bidet, blasé, brevet < sup > A2 </ sup >, brochure < sup > B2 </ sup >, buffet, café < sup > A2 </ sup >, canard < sup > B2 </ sup >, chagrin, chalet < sup > A2 </ sup >, chauffeur < sup > A2, B2 </ sup >, chiffon, cliché < sup > B2 </ sup >, coupé, croissant, debris < sup > B2 </ sup >, debut, décor, detail < sup > A2 </ sup >, détente < sup > B2 </ sup >, flambé, frappé, garage < sup > B2 </ sup >, gateau, gourmet < sup > A2 </ sup >, lamé, montage < sup > A2 </ sup >, parquet, pastel, pastille, pâté, précis, sachet, salon, soupçon, vaccine ; matinée, négligée, nonchalant, nondescript ; also some French names, including Bernard < sup > B2 </ sup >, Calais, Degas, Dijon, Dumas, Francoise, Manet < sup > A2 </ sup >, Maurice, Monet < sup > A2 </ sup >, Pauline, Renault, René < sup > B2 </ sup >, Renoir, Rimbaud, Delacroix < sup > B2 </ sup >.

This includes castrate, dictate < sup > A2 </ sup >, donate < sup > A2 </ sup >, locate < sup > A2 </ sup >, mandate < sup > B2 </ sup >, migrate, placate, prostrate, pulsate, rotate, serrate < sup > A2, B2 </ sup >, spectate, striated, translate < sup > A2 </ sup >, vacate, vibrate ; in the case of cremate, narrate, placate, the first vowel is in addition reduced to in BrE.

( 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.

Polish ( BrE: or AmE: ) may refer to:

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.

Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist who researches Slavistics, a Slavic ( AmE ) or Slavonic ( BrE ) scholar.

* 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 ).

On the other hand, certain people-especially from rather unban areas – have got these sounds mixed up and pronounce words like local / ˈləʊkəl / ( BrE )-/ ˈloʊkəl / ( AmE ) with the / ɔː / sound ( as / ˈlɔːkəl /).

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.

In BrE and AmE, the sound of the letter “ i ” (/ ɪ /-near-close near-front unrounded vowel ) in “ lid ” may be different from that of “ y ” (/ i /-close front unrounded vowel ) in “ happy .” Or else, the latter will also be / ɪ /.

In BrE and AmE, “ book ” will be pronounced / bʊk / (/ ʊ /-near-close near-back vowel ) and boot / buːt / (/ u /-close back rounded vowel ).

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

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.

* 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 ).

* BrE is the common abbreviation for British English

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