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Good sense; shrewdness: [122] "Hillela had the nous to take up with the General when he was on the up-and-up again" (Nadine Gordimer). Rhymes with "mouse". nought the number zero, chiefly British spelling of naught [123] [124] noughts and crosses game played by marking Xs and Os in a 3x3 grid (US: tic-tac-toe) nowt nothing; not anything.
Word British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings quart 1/4 (UK) gallon or 2 (UK) pints. Liquid measure approximately 1.136 litres (6/5 of an American quart). 1/4 (US) gallon or 2 (US) pints. Liquid measure equal to 0.946 litres (5/6 of a British quart).
type of bed, where two small beds are stacked on top of each other (UK bunk (up) with implies sharing a bed, rather than merely a room) nonsense as in "History is bunk" (from bunkum) group of plain beds used as no-frills lodging (UK: dormitory, q.v.); also used as a verb ("I bunked with them in their room"; "The cabin could bunk about 18") bureau
A half crown is equivalent to 2 shillings and sixpence, written 2/6 and pronounced "two and six". Pick and mix Rhymes with "twenty-six". 27 Duck and a crutch The number 2 looks like a duck (see '2') and the number 7 looks like a crutch. Gateway to Heaven Rhymes with "twenty-seven". 28 In a state "Two and eight" is rhyming slang for "state ...
The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...
Many other words have -er in British English. These include Germanic words, such as anger, mother, timber and water, and such Romance-derived words as danger, quarter and river. The ending -cre, as in acre, [26] lucre, massacre, and mediocre, is used in both British and American English to show that the c is pronounced /k/ rather than /s/.
So too are the thousands, with the number of thousands followed by the word "thousand". The number one thousand may be written 1 000 or 1000 or 1,000; larger numbers are written for example 10 000 or 10,000 for ease of reading. European languages that use the comma as a decimal separator may correspondingly use the period as a thousands separator.
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.