Hi, this is Missy, from Blabbinit. Thank you for listening in today. We would like to explain a few differences today between the English from the U.S. and the English from England. I have created a list of 10 words so that you can see that there are major differences between the 2 types of English. The examples are:

apartment - flat

cookie - biscuit

elevator - lift

eraser - rubber

fries - chips

bathroom - loo or WC

flashlight - torch

Stand in a line - queue

sidewalk - pavement

truck - lorry

There are also grammatical differences between British English and American English. For example:

In the US we would say: