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?

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There’s often words that trip me up and I can’t remember which is the Australian English spelling.

    It doesn’t help that devices are often misconfigured to use American English spell checkers.

    I don’t “feel” as though different spellings are more correct in these cases.