Catullus rebuznó:
I've noticed that americans write (for example) realize, color or behavior whilst englishmen tend to use realise, colour, behaviour et al., y'all know. So my question is, which one is more correct?, maybe both forms are totally accepted and there isn't preference... Someone does know the answer?.
It is a matter of choice, not of "correctness". If you aim at speaking in British English (I mean both accent and vocabulary) you use the BE spelling. If you prefer Americna English (aka. Americanese) you use AE spelling and vocabulary.
To be honest, many british nowadays introduce AE slang, words and grammatical uses (have for have got) out of "coolness"; anyway, taking into account that they are not acqauinted with the most basic rules of their language, we should not take it into account.
My advice is the following: if you are more familiar with/prefer/aim at a particular standard, use it through and do not mix. In spanish we do not start a sentence with a Galician accent, the next word in Andalusian and end up with Catalan accent, nor we mix up hispanoamerican spanish with peninsular (Godsend, therefore pure and polite) Spanish.
some BE vs AE uses: first column BE second AE
ou: colour - color
ize: -ise vs -ize
-ce/-se: BE: verb with -se noun with -ce AE: -ce
BE: light, night, through nonstandard AE: lite, nite, thru
words:
BE: lorry AE: truck
underground subway
etc
possession: I have got X vs I have X
Basically
Jimmy do not be so harsh with the boy, you've also made some grammatical mistakes
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