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stress is placed on a syllable that isn’t the first one. So,controlled and has a double l, because the emphasis is controlled. It is asimilar thing for other double letters, like keeping the double t incommitting. 3. Watch your vowels Adding or removing extra vowels, particularlyaround ‘ou’ sounds, is a common place where mistakes can be made. As a generalrule, where English uses an ‘ou’, American English doesn’t bother with the ‘u’,and just uses an ‘o’. Some of the most common examples are the English wordscolour, favourite and behaviour, which become color, behavior and favorite whenAmericanized (or is it, Americanised?). 4. S or Z? Here’s another spellingdifference that often leads to confusion. As American English has developed, ithas replaced lots of the ‘s’s towards the end of English words with ‘z’s. Theysound the same out loud, but are written differently. For example, in Englishyou might be organised, but in American English you would be organized. It’s thesame for realise (realize), cosy (cozy)

and apologise (apologize). 5. Is it getting hot in here? Inthe UK, temperature is measured in degrees Celsius, also known sometimes ascentigrade. This scale has 100 points, or degrees, marked between where waterfreezes (0°C) and where water boils (100°C). So, on a warm Pakistan Mobile Number List  summer day in theUnited Kingdom, the weather forecast might be for temperatures of 25°C. In theUnited States, temperature is measured on the Fahrenheit scale, where thefreezing point of water is 32°F, and the boiling point is 212°F. So, whensomeone is talking about ’25 degrees’  or Fahrenheit, because it could either mean a hot day, or a verycold day! 6. Let’s talk units Most countries in Europe use the metric system tomeasure things like distance and weight; centimeters, meters and kilometers fordistance, grams and kilograms for weight. The United States however still usesthe imperial system that was originally created by the British Empire; itmeasures distance in

inches, feet and miles, while weight is quantified in poundsand ounces. Test your English in minutes Learn more Things are a little morecomplicated in the United Kingdom, which typically uses some Metric and someImperial measurements. For example, if you were chatting with a British Englishspeaker, short distances are often described in meters, but then miles (ratherthan kilometers) are used for long-distance measurements like journeys betweencities. 7. Pronouncing your ‘t’s There are lots of regional accents in theUnited Kingdom and in the United States, which makes it tricky to define a‘correct’ pronunciation for many things. However, one rule that is useful toremember is that English speakers will often pronounce the ‘t’ in the middleand end of words, while many American English speakers will soften it. InAmerican English, words like ‘twenty’ sound more like ‘twenny’, and ‘party’ candrift towards ‘pardy’. The more noticeable ‘t’ in English is also much clearerin words like water, little and better.