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British/American Translator

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George Bernard Shaw said famously that the United Kingdom and America are two countries separated by a common language. Our application – the British/American Translator – closes this gap. The application provides a translation of over 200 common words and phrases from American English to British English and vice-versa. The part of speech (noun, verb, etc.) of each word is given as well as sample usage when the translated term is at all ambiguous.

Translations include numerous
+foods (an aubergine in the UK is called in eggplant in the US);
+cooking ingredients (corn flour in the UK is corn starch in the US);
+professions (a lollypop man[woman] in the UK is a crossing guard in the US);
+common objects (a dummy in the UK is a pacifier in the US);
+and places (a chemist's shop in the UK is a drug store in the US).

Note that we have not included differences in spelling between otherwise identical words like 'color' and 'colour'.

Please feel free to email us any translations you feel are missing from the application.

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Last changed:

Aug 14, 2009

Category:

Utilities

Developer:

Matthew Szenher

Version:

1.0

Average Rating:

2.50 (8)

Size:

0.1 MB

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