[PW] Common word in British English shorter than American?

Borg, Matthew M.Borg at shu.ac.uk
Sat Mar 3 01:57:00 PST 2007


Just a quick one - 

Which common word in British English is shorter than its similarly spelt counterpart in American English?

The only one I can think of is perhaps that Americans oftens use of instead of have...  as in "He would of seen that".  But this can't be correct...  Any ideas?

Matt


More information about the Project-Wombat mailing list