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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.
English has two liquid phonemes, one lateral, /l/ and one rhotic, /ɹ/, exemplified in the words led and red. Many other European languages have one lateral and one rhotic phoneme. Some, such as Greek, Italian and Serbo-Croatian, have more than two liquid phonemes. All three languages have the set /l/, /ʎ/, /r/, with two
In typography, the long s is known as a type of swash letter, commonly referred to as a "swash s". [2] The long s is the basis of the first half of the grapheme of the German alphabet ligature letter ß , [3] (eszett or scharfes s, 'sharp s'). As with other letters, the long s may have a variant appearance depending on typeface: ſ, ſ, ſ, ſ.
The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...
Broken L Old Norwegian [9] /lː/ ᴌ: Small capital L with stroke FUT [2] ꬸ L with double middle tilde Teuthonista [4] ꬹ L with middle ring ꬷ ꭝ L with inverted lazy S ꝲ Lum Medieval abbreviation [25] Ꞁ ꞁ Turned L William Pryce's notation of Welsh [3] /ɬ/ ⅃ Reversed sans-serif capital L Lambda: Salishan and Wakashan ...
Words with two vowels before a final l are also spelled with -ll-in British English before a suffix when the first vowel either acts as a consonant (equalling and initialled; in the United States, equaling or initialed), or belongs to a separate syllable (British di•alled and fu•el•ling; American di•aled and fue•ling).
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(have a butcher's) to have a look (rhyming slang: butcher's hook=look) to kill and cut up an animal for meat to kill messily, or someone who does so one who cuts and sells meat to make a big mess of things; botch ("butcher it up"; "I butchered the spelling") butchery (n.) slaughterhouse, abattoir a cruel massacre a butcher's trade a botch butt (n.)