British vs American: lexical differences

Hey! Would you like to watch a film or a movie? And what is the difference between those words? If you do not know, you are in the right place then. 

In fact, "film" and "movie" mean the same thing but are used in different English-speaking countries ("film" is used in the UK, while "movie" is used in the USA). And today we are talking about lexical differences between British and American English. A lexical difference is when for one meaning there are two different words. These are not the unique differences between these two variants of English, there are other (phonetic, spelling, grammatical differences), but let us concentrate on words that have the same meaning but are used in the UK or the USA. 

In general, there are a lot of such words but we have found the most common ones and have classified them into five categories. Go through these tables and learn them! Note down that in order to be understood, you should not learn all these words by heart. Anyway, it is important to know the difference between them to perform a better dialogue.

1) Transport and traveling 

2) Apartment 

3) Food and cooking

4) Weather and environment 

5) Hobbies and sports

So, we hope that this article was useful for you and you have learned something new! And remember that you can always practice any of these words in Koddy App!