User:Roger Davies/EngVar
This is intended to be a quick guide, offering spelling equivalences. This is not intended as a discussion of nuanced difference in meaning; these may be added later with alert tags or footnotes. Where two spellings are given, the headword in the sources comes first, followed by the variant.
General vocabulary
[edit]English Variant Spellings: General
Mostly American English Rule Mostly British/Commonwealth English -ise surprise, advise etc -ise -Unchanged in both Oxford and Cambridge spelling -ization industrialization etc -ize -Oxford keeps –ization ending. Cambridge uses –isation ending. -ize recognize etc -ize -Oxford keeps –ize endings. Cambridge uses –ise endings. aging, ageing ageing, aging analyze, analysis -yze analyse, analysis artifact artefact ax, axe axe behavior behaviour center, centered, centering centre, centred, centring, centered, centering color, colored, coloring colour, coloured, colouring defense, defensive defence, defensive dialog se / ce dialog (computer), dialogue (other usages) disk disk (computer), disc (other usages) endeavor, endeavoring endeavour, endeavouring drag, dragging, dragged, drug† drag, dragging, dragged favor, favorable, favored, favoring, favorite favour, favourable, favoured, favouring, favourite fit (simple past) fitted flavor, flavored, flavoring flavour, flavoured, flavouring gotten (past participle) got governor, governorship governor, governorship gray, grey grey, gray harbor, habored, harboring harbour, haboured, harbouring honor, honorable, honored honour, honourable, honoured humor, humorous humour, humorous jewelry jewellery judgment judgement labor labour license (n); license (v), licensed, licensing se / ce licence (n); license (v), licensed, licensing math maths maneuver, maneuvered, maneuvering (also manoeuver etc) Oe > e manoeuvre, manoeuvred, manoeuvring misspelled misspelled, misspelt model, modeled, modeling model, modelled, modelling neighbor, neighborhood, neighboring, neighborly neighbour, neighbourhood, neighbouring, neighbourly offense, offensive offence, offensive panel, paneled, paneling panel, panelled, panelling practice (v); practice (n) se/ce practise (v); practice (n) program m / mme program (computer), programme (other usages) skeptic, skeptical, skepticism sceptic, sceptical, scepticism snuck sneaked specialty speciality splendor splendour story, stories (building) storey, storeys (building) theater, theatre, theatrical, theatrically theatre, theatrical, theatrically tire (n) tyre travel, traveler, traveling travel, traveller, travelling valor, valorous, valorously o(u)r valour, valorous, valorously
- † = Dialect (deprecated)
Medical & Scientific
[edit]English Variant Spellings: Medical & Scientific
Mostly American English Mostly British/Commonwealth English aluminum aluminium celiac coeliac edema oedema sulfur sulphur
Sources
[edit]- American English = Merriam Webster Unabridged (online)
- British English = Oxford English Diction v2 on CD-rom