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

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.

* 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, 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 '.

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

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

* Unstressed syllables where / ɪ / in BrE and AmE becomes / e ( ː )/ in SLE

* Stressed syllables where / ɪ / in BrE and AmE rather becomes / iː / in SLE

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

BRE, Bre, or BrE may refer to:

), 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:

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.

For many loanwords from French where AmE has final-syllable stress, BrE stresses an earlier syllable.

* chargesheet-Formal charges filed in a court ( also in BrE, with a space ); v. to file charges against someone in court

* 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 >.

* AmE first-syllable, BrE second-syllable: liaison < sup > A2 </ sup >, macramé, Renaissance ( AmE also final-syllable stress )