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annexe annex To annex is the verb in both British andAmerican usage; however, when speaking of anannex(e) the noun referring to an extension of amain building the root word is spelled with an-

e at the end in the UK and Australia,[122]

but inthe US and New Zealand[123] it is not.artefact, artifact

artifact In British English,artefact is the main spellingandartifact a minor variant.[124] In AmericanEnglish,artifact is the usual spelling. Canadians prefer artifact and Australiansartefact , accordingto their respective dictionaries.[125] Artefact reflects Arte-fact(um), the Latin source.[126]

axe ax, axe

Both the noun and verb. The word comes fromOld English x. In the US, both spellings areacceptable and commonly used. The OxfordEnglish Dictionary states that "the spellingax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, thanaxe, which became prevalent in the 19th century; but it ["ax"] is nowdisused in Britain". The spelling "axe" was used by Shakespeare and in the King James Bible.[127]

camomile, chamomile

chamomile,camomile

The word derives, via French and Latin, fromGreek ("earth apple"). Themore common British spelling "camomile",corresponding to the immediate French source, isthe older in English, while the spelling

"chamomile" more accurately corresponds to theultimate Latin and Greek source.[128] In the UK,according to the OED, "the spellingcha- ischiefly in pharmacy, after Latin; that withca- isliterary and popular". In the USchamomile dominates in all senses.

carat carat, karat The spelling with a "k" is used in the US only forthe measure of purity of gold. The "c" spelling isuniversal for weight.[126]

cheque check In banking. Hence pay chequeand paycheck .Accordingly, the North American term for what
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is known as acurrent account or cheque account in the UK is spelledchequing account in Canadaandchecking account in the US. Some Americanfinancial institutions, notably American Express,

usecheque, but this is merely a trademarkingaffectation.chequer checker As inchequerboard /checkerboard ,

chequered /checkered flag etc. In Canada as in theUS.[129]

chilli chili, chile

The original Mexican Spanish word is spelledchile.[129][130]In Merriam-Webster's Collegiate

ictionary, chileandchilliare given asalso variants.choir choir,

quire Quire was given as an alternative spelling byWebster (1828, 1844 and 1913) and Century

ictionary.[131] However, Quire is also used inthe UK to refer to the area in a cathedraloccupied by the choir (usually the western part ofthe chancel).[132]

cipher , cypher cipher coulter , colter

colter

cosy cozy In all senses (adjective, noun, verb).dyke dike The spelling with "i" is sometimes found in the

UK, but the "y" spelling is rare in the US.doughnut doughnut,

donut In the US, both are used, withdonut indicated asa variant of doughnut .[133] In the UK,donut isindicated as an American variant for doughnut.[134]

draught draft British English usually usesdraft for all senses asthe verb;[135] for a preliminary version of adocument; for an order of payment( bank draft),and for military conscription (although this lastmeaning is not as common as in AmericanEnglish). It usesdraught for drink from a cask (draught beer ); for animals used for pulling
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heavy loads(draught horse); for a current of air;for a ship's minimum depth of water to float; andfor the game draughts, known ascheckersinAmerica. It uses either draught or draft for a plan

or sketch (but almost alwaysdraughtsmanin thissense; adraftsmandrafts legal documents).American English usesdraft in all these cases,includingdraftsman(male or female) (althoughin regard to drinks,draught is sometimes found).Canada uses both systems; in Australia,draft isused for technical drawings, is accepted for the"current of air" meaning, and is preferred by professionals in the nautical sense.[136] The pronunciation is always the same for allmeanings within a dialect (RP/dr ft/,General American/drft/). The spellingdraught is older;draft appeared first in the late16th century.[137]

gauge gauge,

gage[138]

Both spellings have existed since Middle

English.[139]

gauntlet gauntlet,

gantlet When meaning "ordeal", in the phrase running the ga(u)ntlet , some American style guides prefer gantlet .[140]This spelling is unused in Britain[141] and less usual in America than gauntlet . Theword is an alteration of earlier gantlopeby folk etymology with gauntlet ("armored glove"),

always spelled thus.glycerine glycerin, glycerine

Scientists use the term glycerol, but bothspellings are used sporadically in the US.

grey gray Greybecame the established British spelling inthe 20th century, pace Dr Johnson and others,[142] and it is but a minor variant in American Englishaccording to dictionaries. Canadians tend to prefer grey. The non-cognate greyhound wasnever grayhound . BothGreyandGray are foundin proper names everywhere in the English-speaking world. The two spellings are of equal
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antiquity, and the Oxford English Dictionarystates that "each of the current spellings has someanalogical support".[143]

grille grill, grille

In the US, "grille" refers to that of an automobile, whereas "grill" refers to a device used for heatingfood. However, it is not uncommon to see bothspellings used in the automotive sense,[144]aswell as in Australia,[145]and New Zealand.[146]

hearken harken The word comes from hark . The spellinghe arken was used by Shakespeare and the King JamesBible. It was probably influenced by hear .[147]

idyll idyll, idyl

Idyl was the spelling of the word preferred in theUS by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, for thesame reason as the double consonant rule;idyll ,the original form from Greek eidullion, is nowgenerally used in both the UK and US.

ail, gaol

jail In the UK, gaol and gaoler are used sometimes,apart from literary usage, chiefly to describe a

medieval building and guard. Both spellings go back to Middle English: gaol was a loanwordfrom Norman French, while jail was a loanwordfrom central (Parisian) French. In Middle Englishthe two spellings were associated with different pronunciations. In current English the word,however spelled, is always given the pronunciation originally associated only with theail spelling /del/. The survival of the gaol

spelling in British English is "due to statutoryand official tradition".[148]

kerb curb For the noun designating the edge of a roadway(or the edge of a British pavement/ Americansidewalk/ Australian footpath).Curb is the older spelling, and in the UK and US it is still the

proper spelling for the verb meaningrestrain.[149]

(kilo)gram, (kilo)gramme

(kilo)gram (Kilo)grammeis used sometimes in the UK butnever in the US.(Kilo)gramis the only spellingused by the International Bureau of Weights and
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Measures.liquorice licorice The American spelling is nearer the Old French

sourcelicorece, which is ultimately from Greek glykyrrhiza.[150]The British spelling wasinfluenced by the unrelated wordliquor .[151] icoriceprevails in Canada and it is common inAustralia, but it is rarely found in the UK.

iquoriceis all but nonexistent in the US("Chiefly British", according to dictionaries).[152]

midriff midriff,midrif [131][153]

mollusc mollusk , mollusc The related adjective may be spelledmolluscan or molluskan.mould mold In all senses of the word. Both spellings have

been used since the sixteenth century.[154] InCanada, both words have wide currency.[155] When speaking of the noun describing a form forcasting a shape, the US will also use the "mould"

spelling, but defaults to "mold" when referring tothe fruiting bodies of tiny fungi. In New Zealand"mold" is the spelling adopted when describing aform for casting a shape while "mould" is usedwhen referring to a fungus

moult molt neurone,

neuron

neuron

omelette omelet, omelette

Theomelet spelling is the older of the two, inspite of the etymology (Frenchomelette).[156] Omeletteprevails in Canada and in Australia.

plough plow Both spellings have existed since MiddleEnglish. The OED records several dozenvariants. In the UK, ploughhas been the standard

spelling for about 300 years.[157]

Although plow was Noah Webster's pick, ploughcontinued tohave some currency in the US, as the entry inWebster's Third (1961) implies. Newer
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dictionaries label ploughas "chiefly British". Theword snowplough/ snowplow, originally anAmericanism, predates Webster's dictionariesand was first recorded as snow plough. Canada

has both ploughand plow,[158]

although snowploughis much rarer there than snowplow.In the US, "plough" sometimes describes ahorsedrawn kind while "plow" refers to agasoline (petrol) powered kind.

primaeval primeval Primeval is also common in UK butetymologically 'ae' is nearer the Latin sourcerimusfirst +aevumage.[159]

rack and ruin wrack andruin

Several words like "rack" and "wrack" have beenconflated, with both spellings thus accepted asvariants for senses connected to torture (orig.rack ) and ruin (orig.wrack , cf.wreck )[160] In"(w)rack and ruin", the W-less variant is now prevalent in the UK but not the US.[161]The term,however, is rare in the US.

sceptic (-al, -ism)

skeptic (-al, -ism)

The American spelling, akin to Greek, is theearliest known spelling in English.[162] It was preferred by Fowler, and is used by manyCanadians, where it is the earlier form.[163] Scepticalso pre-dates the European settlement of the US, and it follows the French sceptiqueandLatin scepticus. In the mid-18th century, Dr

Johnson's dictionary listed skepticwithoutcomment or alternative, but this form has never been popular in the UK;[164] sceptic, an equalvariant in the oldWebster's Third (1961), hasnow become "chiefly British". Australiansgenerally follow the British usage (with thenotable exception of the Australian Skeptics). Allof these versions are pronounced with a hard "c",though in French that letter is silent and the wordis pronounced like septique.

slew, slue slue, slew Meaning "to turn sharply; a sharp turn", the
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preferred spelling differs. Meaning "a greatnumber" is usually slewin all regions.[165]

smoulder smolder Both spellings go back to the sixteenth century,and have existed since Middle English.[126][166]

storey story Level of a building. The plurals are storeysand stories respectively. The letter "e" is used in theUK and Canada to differentiate between levels of buildings and a story as in a literary work.[167] Storyis the earlier spelling. The Oxford EnglishDictionary states that this word is "probably thesame word as story [in its meaning of

"narrative"] though the development of sense isobscure.[168] One of the first uses of the (nowBritish) spelling "storey" was by Harriet BeecherStowe in 1852 (Uncle Tom's Cabin xxxii).

sulphate sulfate, sulphate

sulphur sulfur ,

sulphur

Sulfur is the preferred spelling by the

International Union of Pure and AppliedChemistry (IUPAC) and by the UK's RoyalSociety of Chemistry (RSC).[169] Sulphur is used by British and Irish scientists, and it is activelytaught in British and Irish schools. It prevails inCanada and Australia, and it is also found insome American place names (e.g. Sulphur,Louisiana and White Sulphur Springs, WestVirginia). American English usage guidessuggest sulfur for technical usage, and both sulfur and sulphur in common usage and inliterature.[170][171]The variation between f and ph spellings is also found in the word's ultimatesource: Latin sulfur , sulphur .[172]

through through,

thru[173]

"Thru" is typically used in the US as shorthand.

towards, toward

toward,towards
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tyre tire The outer portion of a wheel. In Canada as in theUS.Tire is the older spelling, but both were usedin the 15th and 16th centuries (for a metal tire).Tire became the settled spelling in the 17th

century buttyrewas revived in the UK in the19th century for rubber / pneumatic tyres, possibly because it was used in some patentdocuments,[174] though many continued to usetire for the iron variety. The Times newspaper was still usingtire as late as 1905. For the verbmeaning "to grow weary" both American andBritish English use only thetire spelling.

vice vise, vice The two-jawed workbench tool. Americans andCanadians retain the very old distinction betweenvise(the tool) andvice(the sin, and also the Latin prefix meaning a "deputy"), both of which arevice in the UK and Australia.[175] Thus,Americans haveVice-Admiral , Vice-President ,andVice-Principal , but never Vise-for any one

of these.yoghurt, yogurt

yogurt,yoghurt

Yoghurt is analso-ran in the US, as is yoghourt in the UK. Although the Oxford Dictionarieshave always preferred yogurt , in current Britishusage yoghurt seems to be prevalent. In Canada,ogurt prevails, despite the Canadian Oxford

preferring yogourt , which has the advantage of

satisfying bilingual (English and French) packaging requirements.[2][176]Australian usagetends to follow the UK. Whatever the spelling is,the word has different pronunciations: in the UK /jt/or /jot/, only/jort/in America, Ireland, andAustralia. The word comes from the Turkishlanguage word yourt .[177]The voiced velar fricative represented by in the modernTurkish (Latinic) alphabet was traditionallywritten gh in romanizations of the OttomanTurkish (Arabic) alphabet used before 1928.
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