Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.

Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

In several languages, including English, pronouns and possessives may be capitalized to indicate respect, e. g., when referring to the reader of a formal letter or to God.

In American English the word corporation is widely used to describe incorporated entities, especially those that have a large number of shareholders, and in respect of which, ownership can be transferred without the need for the consent of other shareholders.

According to William Lutz: “ Only by teaching respect and love for the language can teachers of English instill in students the sense of outrage they should experience when they encounter doublespeak.

In physics, jerk, also known as jolt ( especially in British English ), surge and lurch, is the rate of change of acceleration ; that is, the derivative of acceleration with respect to time, the second derivative of velocity, or the third derivative of position.

It reorganized the English court system to establish the High Court and the Court of Appeal and also originally provided for the abolition of the judicial functions of the House of Lords with respect to England but, under the act, it would have retained those functions in relation to Scotland and Ireland for the time being.

" In a review of H. D. Traill's analysis of Coleridge in the " English Men of Letters ", an anonymous reviewer wrote in 1885 Westminster Review: " Of ' Kubla Khan ,' Mr. Traill writes: ' As to the wild dream-poem ' Kubla Khan ,' it is hardly more than a psychologial curiosity, and only that perhaps in respect of the completeness of its metrical form.

Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz ( Mainz ) and is said to have arrived at Popedom by evil art ; for disguising herself like a man, whereas she was a woman, she went when young with her paramour, a learned man, to Athens, and made such progress in learning under the professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures ; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV ( as Martin says ) by common consent she was chosen Pope in his room.

David himself had lost his popularity and the respect of his nobles when he married the widow of a minor laird after the death of his English wife.

In late May 1845 Engels published the English version of his first book-a quotation: " A class which bears all the disadvantages of the social order without enjoying its advantages … Who can demand that such a class respect this social order?

In this respect, Boyle's attitude to the Irish language differed from the English Ascendancy class in Ireland at the time, which was generally hostile to the language and largely opposed the use of Irish ( not only as a language of religious worship ).

James was given a good education at the English court, where he developed respect for English methods of governance and for Henry V to the extent that he served in the English army against the French during 1420 – 1.

The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are the historically defining statements of doctrines of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation.

Avant-garde (); from French, " advance guard " or " vanguard ") is a French term used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Initial reaction to Finnegans Wake, both in its serialized and final published form, was largely negative, ranging from bafflement at its radical reworking of the English language to open hostility towards its lack of respect for the conventions of the novel.

This earned him the respect of U. S. officials and he was sent to the United States to study, despite his poor English, at the U. S. Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth, Kansas.

That New York City ( formerly New Amsterdam ) had been retaken by the Dutch in 1673 mattered little in financial respect, like the temporary loss of Saint Helena, but hurt the English reputation.

Fräulein was used in German as a title of respect, equivalent to current usage of Miss in English.

In this respect, he resembles Gurney, Roger Quilter and other English song composers of the early twentieth century, though works such as the Cello Concerto and Intimations of Immortality show him more than a miniaturist.

In this respect, public education in the large cities differs from education in the smaller cities and consolidated school districts.

Continuous distillation differs from batch distillation in the respect that concentrations should not change over time.

They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system ; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country .”

While the certification process differs between these groups, all of them include forest stewardship, respect for aboriginal peoples, compliance with local, provincial or national environmental laws, forest worker safety, education and training, and other environmental, business, and social requirements.

In this respect, he differs from his Greek equivalent Zeus ( who is considered a personal god, warden and dispenser of skylight ).

The novel also differs greatly with respect to the human characters.

In that respect, derivation differs from compounding by which free morphemes are combined ( lawsuit, Latin professor ).

This period differs from the sidereal period because both the orbital plane of the object and the plane of the ecliptic precess with respect to the fixed stars, so their intersection, the line of nodes, also precesses with respect to the fixed stars.

In this respect, it differs markedly from the mahori orchestras of Cambodia and Siam.

In this respect tritheism differs from dualism, which typically envisages two opposed Divine powers in conflict with one another.

In this respect, it differs from all other known immunosuppressants.

In this respect second-order logic with standard semantics differs from first-order logic ; Quine ( 1970, pp. 90 – 91 ) pointed to the lack of a complete proof system as a reason for thinking of second-order logic as not logic, properly speaking.

In this respect, it differs from stochastic grammar, which considers grammaticality as a probabilistic variable.

In this respect it is similar to core wars, but differs in that the programs being run in the simulation are able to modify themselves, and thereby evolve.

In this respect the US differs from countries such as the UK where membership of the ' upper class ' is also dependent on other factors.

Kim and Lee noted that the agenda-setting research on internet differs from traditional agenda-setting research with respect that the Internet is in competition with traditional media and has enormous capacity for contents, and users ’ interactivity.

A glycoform is an isoform of a protein that differs only with respect to the number or type of attached glycan.

It is in this respect that Melissus differs from Parmenides, although some argue that the difference is not as important as it might seem.

I cannot impart acquaintance with them to any one who has not already made it himself I cannot describe them, make a blind man guess what blue is like, define to a child a syllogism, or tell a philosopher in just what respect distance is just what it is, and differs from other forms of relation.

Owing to its typical atoll shape, it differs in no respect from atolls in the Pacific Ocean, save for its greater size.

Their visual apparatus is basically similar to humans, but differs markedly in at least one respect.

This account differs from Hrólf Kraki's saga in the respect that Yrsa was first peacefully married to Eadgils, and later captured by Halga, who raped her and made her pregnant with Hroðulf.

Sport climbing differs from traditional climbing with respect to the type and placement of protection.