What are some words you feel sound more right in both the American and British English?

I use a mix of the two depending on the word.

For example, I stand by pronouncing words like “Amazon” with an “ehn” sound at the end ovet an “ohn” sound, prefer spelling colour and flavour with a u, and also like using double Ls for words like travelling. Also, it is “grey”. (British English)

However, I pronounce Z as “zee”and call them fries rather than chips.

There are also spellings where I sort of alternate between depending on my mood, such as “meter” vs “metre”and“airplane” vs “aeroplane”

Are there any words that you think sound better in British and American spellings/pronunciations?

  • hihi24522@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 days ago

    When I am talking about fibrous material, like individual strands of carbon in a composite, I naturally type “fibre” but when I talk about nutrition or the internet it’s “fiber”

    I also tend to spell armor armour and color colour despite being American.

    Oh and I write grey instead of gray.

    I also catch myself writing units like metre and litre instead of meter and liter sometimes.

    It really all depends on if there’s a spellchecker turned on that will tell me I’m spelling things wrong.

      • hihi24522@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 days ago

        Nope, gen z, and I haven’t actually read any of the Harry Potter books myself.

        But you’re on the right track; I think it was reading The Hobbit that did me in lol