Why Do Americans Have Only One Math...

[ToraToraTora]

.....when we have lots of them?

[maggiebee]

And how can they do a tap dance when the only have a faucet?

[stuey]

But they do drive on the right side of the road.

[Berniecuddles2]

and anything of theirs is bigger than your's

[stuey]

American: "Who taught you how to pronounce 'schedule'?
Briton: "My shool teacher, of course."

[jno]

when the Stones released their Aftermath album, Ringo said the next Beatles LP would be called After Geography.

[horseshoes]

.... and they say route pronounced rout, except that they say Route 66 like we'd say it.

[stuey]

Americans must be tougher than the British since if they fall out of the first floor of a building, they only get a few bruises maybe; however, a British person is going to get at least a few broken bones.

[fiction-factory]

That's their storey.

[Hopkirk]

....and don't get me started on paracetamol

[Old_Geezer]

Because they are very single minded ?

[stuey]

This thread could heat up, so I won't mention 'flammable', 'inflammable', and 'uninflammable'.

[Togo]

Aluminium Aluminum. You say potato I say potahto, you say tamayto I say tomato.

[Hopkirk]

Rubber

[Togo]

Where's fender?

[fiction-factory]

He's too 'tired'

[stuey]

"Rubber": To be used in correcting mistakes in math.

[albaqwerty]

colour/color neighbour/neighbor odour/odor

too lazy to spell properly :-)

[mushroom25]

doesn't lazy = efficient, Alba?

[Mamyalynne]

Much of the spelling differences have far more to do with historical use rather than laziness.

Even our own beloved Shakespeare used both center/centre and color/colour.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

[Prudie]

Their erbs have silent aitches too