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.

( 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.

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.

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 ).

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

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 /).

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 )

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 /.

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.

), where ' ed ' is pronounced / ɪd / in BrE and AmE, it tends to be pronounced /- əɖ / in SLE.

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

* 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.

Moreover, the ' es ' added to form plurals of nouns ending in ‘ s / s /’, ‘ z / z /’, ‘ sh / ʃ /’, ‘ ch / tʃ /’, ’ j / dʒ /’, though pronounced /- ɪz / in BrE and AmE, tend to become /- əs /.

( 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.

* Unstressed syllables where ' et ' is pronounced /- ɪt / in BrE and AmE but rather /- əʈ / in SLE

* Unstressed syllables where ' age ' ( or ' ege ') is pronounced / ɪdʒ / in BrE and AmE but rather / e ( ː ) dʒ / in SLE

* Words like ' is ' and ' nose ', where the's ' is pronounced / z / in BrE and AmE, but often / s / in SLE

( 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.

( Though the letter's ' in the singular ‘ house ’ is pronounced / s / in BrE and AmE, it becomes / z / in the plural.

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.

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

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.

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.

However, some derived adjectives ending-atory have a difference, as stress shifting to-at-can occur in BrE with the final vowel sound being omitted, in this case, the ' o '.

The following table lists words where the only difference between AmE and BrE is in stress ( possibly with a consequent reduction of the unstressed vowel ).