"Are you familiar with British spelling" Christina : "Because of Lauren..." OMG , that's so sweet , she really likes Lauren around her , best duo no doubt 🥰😁🇬🇧🇺🇲

It's amazing how anyone from any country has an amazing chemistry with Christina , she is the best with everything new 😁🇺🇲

I had a great time with Hannah! I thought I knew the spelling of many UK words, but for some of these it was the first time seeing them spelled differently! 😆 Hope you guys learned some as well! -Christina 🇺🇸

I am from Canada and it was interesting to see that in Canada we spell almost all these words the UK way

Hello everyone~ Hannah here 🇬🇧 so much fun doing the spelling bee with Christina! And I learned "sombre" 😂 Hope you all enjoy watching 🥰

1:06 I'm from Germany, we learn British English at school from teachers with a German accent and listen to American English in film and television. Don't tell me about confusion... I guess it's the same in Scandinavia.

French influenced not just vocabulary but also syntax and orthography in England. After the Battle of Hastings, our Parliament, Elite and Anglo-Norman Courts spoke only French for 326 years, so all these French words that stayed in English, we kept the 'ou' because it was just like that from French. That's why we Brits say souvenir and not a 'gift for example, and we call our democratic system Parliament (from the French verb parler, meaning to speak), because we've kept a lot of the French words in British English. Even sayings like raison d'être, bon appétit, à la carte, au contraire, au pair, bon voyage, c'est la vie, cordon bleu, coup d'état, crème de la crème, déjà vu, en route, femme fatale, joie de vivre, papier mâché, RSVP (Répondez S'il Vous Plaît) but to name a few

I am American and use GREY and GRAY both. It's kind of weird because it's almost how it feels in the sentence that decides. I work in design, so I often say things like grayscale and gray end of the spectrum... but if I'm talking about the cloudy sky, I usually use grey. A soft blanket would be grey but hard concrete might be gray. I definitely prefer grey but often put gray in my professional writing so people don't think I'm spelling it wrong!

I think plow/plough is a very interesting one. As a Canadian we use a lot of the British spellings, but this one I might use both? I don't really spell it much so I can't say for sure. But in the context of snow it would definitely be plow, like a snowplow. In the context of a field though I feel like I might use plough. Perhaps that stems from the fact that the Brits don't get much snow so we adopted the American spelling "snowplow".

"Theatre" is really common in the U.S. especially within the discipline and in proper names of theatres. The magazine American Theatre, The American Theatre Wing, and numerous professional and amateur theatres use that spelling in their names. It's always good to check the spelling when theatre/theater is part of a theatre's proper name.

I think for check/cheque I'll go with UK one. Because check✅ is fine, "I'll check it later" is fine but when it comes to bank's draft or money related thing it's always Cheque for me.

Lauren is great with Christina, but this girl (Hannah) is as funny and enjoyable to watch. She must be really fun to have around. Good addition to the channel!

It's worth pointing out that "cheque" and "check" are both used in British English but have two different meanings: "Cheque" is a noun as in a printed cheque to pay a bill. "Check" is a verb "to check" something.

As a person who's first language is french...it's funny to see how close and related the words are between french and british english...

Only clicked for Christina's cheek bones, but this was interesting too Plough is the only truly English word. All the rest are French in origin, the English spelling is unchanged - except for skeptical, which is from classical Greek. The English spelling is the Latin variation. ....and grey, of course, that'll be down to the "Great Vowel Shift" (See also, Derby).

Christina is the best. She has great chemistry with everyone.

Love you girls sounding out words - we learned Phonics as kids & this why we all learned to spell in school. As an Aussie we mainly speak the Queen's English. I am attending a USA University for my Ph.D & my entry thesis was marked down for grammar & spelling only an email from my Professor to Americanise the Spelling LOL.

They sound french because all this words (Execpte Grey and plough) have French origins ^^ Theatre = Théâtre, Centre = Centre, Sombre = Sombre, Cheque = Chèque.

Sometimes myself is english and very very wrong grammar but now i learn english is because World Friends channel is teach me how to speak louder and speak with perfect grammar. From The Philippines.🇵🇭

Hannah's smile was really fascinating in this video~

I'd be really cool if you day you did a video comparing portuguese from portugal and Brazil! (and maybe even africa)

This shows my struggles. I live in the Caribbean and we use British English most but certain this are influence by America. And sometimes when I write I will use both of them, making it difficult to use autocorrect software.

Great Work guys 👏

Apparently 41% of english is from french

I learned to spell "gray" from Crayola crayons. The first that I remember seeing it spelled "grey" was in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder "Little House" books. That series also had "slough" for what I would call "slew".

8:01 "Sombre", "Hombre"... mmm. I could agree on that. BTW, "hombre" means "man".

Oh! That's probably why I always write sckeptical and even though I know it's wrong I never know which letter to remove 😅

Some words of British and America accent with differents spelling = Shark , Banana , Airplane , Tomato , Car , City , Color , Water , Juice , Basic , Flag...and the list goes on...

really good content, helps me understanding the difference between U.S spelling and U.K spelling. thank you.

Here in Canada we use mostly the UK spelling. Gray and grey are odd here too. There was a Canadian bus company called Gray Coach which was spelled the American way, and then there is the famous American company Greyhound, which appears to be spelt the UK way. Very confusing indeed!

It use to also be gray in the US but more and more people are spelling it grey.

Wow! I got all of them right! Interesting.

In Canada, we learn to spell the colour "grey" as such, and taught that "Gray" is usually a person's surname.

Oh! It's Hannah again! I love to see her again here in World Friends. She looks gorgeous and kind. In the end when she says 'sounds really rude' I laugh coz she's too cute xD. One more thing, I can't rid of the fact that Christina is an easy going person coz she gets along well with everyone.

Most of the spelling differences between the US and UK are the result of the British aristocracy happening to French-ify their spellings of words that came into English through French, and then subsequently being the ones to author the first English dictionaries. While the American spellings are typically closer to the etymology of the word and are argued to be superior for that, I believe that preserving the evolutionary history reflected in British spellings is more important.

Something like this that makes it hard for me as a non English speaker. Sometimes I confused if what the word that I write was correct. For example like color, sometimes I confused with color or colour and I feel like I wrote a wrong word 😅 the same thing happen with grey or gray, but I know I'm using American English more than British, but I also think I used both of them.

A couple points: 1) As noted, grey/gray are perfectly interchangeable in the US. I haven’t observed a strong bias towards one or the other generally or regionally. 2) I’m kind of surprised at how hard this was for her. In the US we see british spellings all the time. I’d wager the average american who is at least moderately literate or educated would have no problem with any of these.

The spell check in word processors and social media is usually set to USA English as a default and is contributing to the pushing of American spellings in Canada.

The "cheque" spelling in the UK is only referring to the bank note noun.

In the Commonwealth of Australia we spell things the English way, I would've liked it if they put Gaol (jail in American English) as one of the words.

I've used grey/gray interchangeably

I'm from Texas and studied Theatre in High School and College. We were taught that "Theater" is the building and "Theatre" is the art

"Theatre", "cheque", "sombre : is there a French influence because of the history between France and UK? Those words share the same spelling in both language. Even for the first part of "sceptical"

Christina listening to UK drum and bass makes her cooler than she already was.

Most of these words have french origin... hence the spelling difference.

I have studied English from Pakistan and we follow the British English there as well. I guess it is prevalent in Commonwealth Nations.

3:50 Correct me if I'm wrong, This check is bank cheque? Checking for something has same spelling CHECK, I think. Correct? Or Cheque is used for both meanings?

From u.s. I've spelled grey/gray both ways throughout my life and to be honest I never really noticed or was aware of it.

Hannah is so gorgeous!!!

Grey is an acceptable alternate spelling in the US. Is there a difference in the UK between cheque, a slip of paper you take to a bank, and check, what you do with your privilege?

I got the plough one!

In Canada as well... "plough" and "draught" beer. Not "plow" and "draft.'"

One of the Garridebs put an ad in a British newspaper for agricultural stuff, but wrote "plows". Sherlock Holmes knew he was actually American. But a hundred years later, I, an American, had to look up what a buckboard is. British spelling distinguishes a micrometre (a thousandth of a millimetre) from a micrometer (a tool to measure such small distances). American spelling doesn't. British spelling also distinguishes grey (the color) from gray (a joule per kilogram of absorbed dose).

in portugal we say sombra- shadower place or sombria ou sombrio like a a very sombre house, uma casa mito sombria, that causes goose bumps

Canada spells most things in the UK style, but the US style is also acceptable depending on the audience.

Wough that was such an amasing video.

Iam waitting to lauren

In the US State of New Hampshire’s state capital, Concord, in the downtown area are streets named Center St, and Centre St.

I’ve always spelled it theatre and I’m American 👀 I didn’t even know the other spelling… or at least never noticed

If I were Brit and somebody would have the audacity to correct my English I'd just : fuckin' colonies 😂

I’m American and knew most of these. Plough for plow I only learned in the last couple years. Skeptical is the only one I didn’t know.

As an American, I was able to get all of them and I was kind of hoping for more challenging ones like manoeuvre, Oestrogen, foetal, gaol and programme.

I’m American and have spelled it as both “grey” and “gray” before lol

oh, the plow and plough is new to me

In Canada check is like a check mark cheque is like a pay cheque.

check and cheque are both words in uk english, you'd say check if ticking a checkbox, and cheque if you paying for something

I used to be very particular with American English and English when I was in school. Now, I'm like. Oh. Nice reaction. 😂

I use both

When I see "plough", I immediately hear the word "pluff".

Christina's laugh is a mood 😍

I'm from the U.S. I must have had some British books as a child, because I remember I kept trying to write colour and favourite because that's how they were spelled in the book I read. My teacher had to explain to me that in the U.S. they aren't spelled that way. I was so confused.

I think most Americans would know alternative spelling for gray grey because we have a dog and well known bus company called Greyhound. I’m glad we dropped the u from color and favorite. I hated learning spelling as a kid and favor the elimination of as many letters as possible. 😂

04:20 if you read some sherlock holmes series, watson once said about plow, then sherlock answers it's not wrong, that is amerian. Was it valley of fear? The study of scarlet? I am not sure.

I remember I used to spell 'Plough' wrong when I was in primary ( elementary) school 🤣

Wait until Christina deals with "phial" and "sulphur" as well as "programme" and "tyre". LOL

center and centre

Me not knowing the meaning of half of these words: Yeah yeah i can relate to Christina it looks wrong to spell the word like that! Lmao

The spelling "plough" retains the ancient Indo-European form of the word. E.g. in Russian this farm tool is called "plug".

*The reason? Most of these words come from the French* *Fr: ThéâtRE // Eng: TheatRE* *Fr: ChèQUE // Eng: CheQUE* *Fr: SCeptique // Eng: SCeptical* *Fr: SombRE // Eng: SombRE* *Fr: CentRE // Eng: CentRE* *.....*

I am Australian and we also use British spelling so I knew all of these and I agree words like colour look like something is missing without the u. It also is not phonetic for me as 'our and 'or are pronounced differently here and colour definitely has the 'our sound. One that I find interesting is the differences in the words practice/practise and licence/license. In the US they are spelt the same way where as in British English one spelling is the verb and the other is the noun.

I am Irish and I use all the British spelling except I use skeptical over sceptical

I feel like I must have been British in another life. I have always preferred the uk spelling for colour and theatre etc. I interchange gray/grey and I got every one of the spellings right. I'm not even sure how I knew some of them.

British English is conservative in its spelling of the French loanwords, where as American ones are more phonetic or simplified versions.

In Canada for the most part we have the same spellings as the UK but in Canada we spell it plow not plough but we also have the “ou” in words were in the US they would only have the”o” like we spell it colour not color or favourite not favorite or labour not lobor and neighbour not neighbor and behaviour not behavior and favour not favor and in Canada it’s spelled grey not gray, and it’s spelled centre not center, and it’s spelled theatre not theater in Canada and also in Canada it’s spelled cheque when you’re singing a cheque like for the bank but it’s actually spelled check when you go to check something (or someone) out or to go check on something or it’s spelled check like for a check mark in Canada it’s only spelled cheque when it’s a banker’s cheque for the most part

In India we are taught the British English because .... (we know the reason). So here we write "colour" which was a bit confusing as a child because in the computers, it was always "color" because Microsoft is American. So we used to get confused that is this the right. But the curriculum taught in schools is British English. I remember that one of our teachers in high school said that it was fine to use American English but to be consistent on that. He insisted to not blend the two while writing. But the most problematic thing is I get confused that which is which? So I mix up the 's' and 'z' most of the times.

Wow

Christina is a DnB fan? Good taste indeed.

It’s so funny cause I live in the States but I spell a lot of words like the UK

Canadian here. Our spelling is much closer to British English vs American. I think the only word that was different was skeptic vs sceptic. My perception is different from Hannah's that most of the English speaking world outside of the US uses British spelling more.

So a couple of years ago my family took a trip to the UK and we decided to drive up to Scotland. As we were driving I briefly look out the window as we were passing a gas (petrol) station and I saw a sign that said something about tires only thing was that it was spelled tyre and i was like WTF! Hahahaha!😂

Try with portuguese words : Portugal , Angola , Mozambique 🇵🇹🇦🇴🇲🇿

And thats why America said nope we are going our own way

I spelled both theatre and theater, and I was literally surprised the spelling of check as "cheque."

The British girl’s accent triggers me. Lol

In french you don't pronounce the last lettre it affects the letter before it.

I love english huhu

Where is Lauren

Maybe Hannah could expand on the various forms of *ough words??

In Australia we generally use UK English spelling: cheque, grey, plough, sceptical etc. That said, we use American terms for certain items e.g. zucchini, eggplant. It's a good mix!

Canadian struggles: Having mostly british spelling but having some american written words and google docs constantly switching you between two locales because it does not recognize Canadian English