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

[Sylvia Milne]

I can't think of any.
Burglarise is just a longer form of burgle, not a similar spelling.
Would an American be a victim of burglarization?
Sorry, I digress.

Surely there are far more cases where the word in standard English is longer 
than in American:
colour, humour,favourite,dialogue,cheque,jewellery,aluminium,foetus and 
there must be many more.

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Borg, Matthew" <M.Borg at shu.ac.uk>
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Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject: [PW] Common word in British English shorter than American?


> 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
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