Burn-in time: it's no joke.

[E-Stat]

"Sceptic" person who habitually doubts generally accepted beliefs.

Collins English Dictionary

There are quite a few English words that have slightly different accepted spelling depending upon which side of pond you reside, such as:

sceptic -- skeptic
analise -- analyze
organise -- organize
favourite -- favorite
rumour -- rumor
centre -- center
theatre -- theater
manoeuvre - manuever
catalogue -- catalog
anaemia -- anemia
tyre -- tire

We Americans wonder things like why is "lieutenant" pronounced with an "F"?

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[emesbee]

There are quite a few English words that have slightly different accepted spelling depending upon which side of pond you reside, such as:

sceptic -- skeptic
analise -- analyze
organise -- organize
favourite -- favorite
rumour -- rumor
centre -- center
theatre -- theater
manoeuvre - manuever
catalogue -- catalog
anaemia -- anemia
tyre -- tire

We Americans wonder things like why is "lieutenant" pronounced with an "F"?

rw

One thing that throws me sometimes is the American use of the word 'check'. To me, the word 'cheque' and 'check' have two quite different meanings, whereas Americans use the word 'check' in both cases. ie: I might write a cheque for $100, but make a check on the weather, for example.

I remember as a student reading a passage in a textbook, which said something like 'a check is made for the balance'. It didn't make any sense at first, until we realised that the book was American.

[E-Stat]

One thing that throws me sometimes is the American use of the word 'check'. To me, the word 'cheque' and 'check' have two quite different meanings, whereas Americans use the word 'check' in both cases. ie: I might write a cheque for $100, but make a check on the weather, for example.

The word "check" is one of those words with lots of meanings both as noun and verb. Like one of our ex-presidents said of another: It depends...

rw

[Feanor]

There are quite a few English words that have slightly different accepted spelling depending upon which side of pond you reside, such as:

sceptic -- skeptic
analise -- analyze
organise -- organize
favourite -- favorite
rumour -- rumor
centre -- center
theatre -- theater
manoeuvre - manuever
catalogue -- catalog
anaemia -- anemia
tyre -- tire

We Americans wonder things like why is "lieutenant" pronounced with an "F"?

rw

We Canadians tend to be somewhere mid-Atlantic. So for example we tend to use ...

cheque
centre
theatre
favourite

on the one hand, but on the other ...

tire, (viz. "Canadian Tire Corporation")
catalog
manuever
analyze
criticize (vs.UK, criticise)
civilization (vs. UK, civilisation).

[emesbee]

We Canadians tend to be somewhere mid-Atlantic. So for example we tend to use ...

cheque
centre
theatre
favourite

on the one hand, but on the other ...

tire, (viz. "Canadian Tire Corporation")
catalog
manuever
analyze
criticize (vs.UK, criticise)
civilization (vs. UK, civilisation).

I tend to use the English spellings, because that was the way I was taught. (I was also born there.)

Here in Australia, the following are fairly standard usage:-

cheque
centre
theatre
favourite
tyre

American style spellings seem to be creeping in for some other words, although both spellings are often used, eg:-

color (UK colour)
harbor (UK harbour)
criticize (UK criticise)

etc.

[RGA]

There are quite a few English words that have slightly different accepted spelling depending upon which side of pond you reside, such as:

sceptic -- skeptic
analise -- analyze
organise -- organize
favourite -- favorite
rumour -- rumor
centre -- center
theatre -- theater
manoeuvre - manuever
catalogue -- catalog
anaemia -- anemia
tyre -- tire

We Americans wonder things like why is "lieutenant" pronounced with an "F"?

rw

If you're Canadian it's worse because there is a mix of rules between the two countries. Argghhh We spell Tire as Tire but we spell Center as Center and I personally use the Z in organize but some Canucks use S.