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  British / American
American practice is fl for live, white for neutral and green for earth, although it is not normal for the cord from the outlet to the appliance to have colour coded wires.
British houses simply do not have such things, the nearest equivalents are "patio" meaning an unroofed area adjacent to a building paved with slabs, "verandah" a covered and glassed walkway along the side of a building and "conservatory" a room-like extension entirely walled and roofed in glass.
British houses are usually numbered serially starting from one end of a road or street with even numbers on one side and odd numbers on the other side, however it is not uncommon to find them numbered sequentially up one side of the road and down the other.
www.markoinbangkok.com /britishamerican.htm   (7614 words)

  
 British American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British Americans are Americans whose ancestry stems, either wholly or in part, from one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.
British Americans have English, Scottish, Scots-Irish (Ulster), or Welsh family heritages, or came from Canada where their ancestors were of British descent.
With their roots being in America for such a long period, many British Americans and a significant number of Irish Americans have begun to think of themselves ancestrally simply as "Americans." This is especially true in the South.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_American   (681 words)

  
 American Revolution - American war of independence
To the North of the colonies lay the British province of Canada, with its mainly French speaking population, and to the West the hinterland of the American landmass.
The British government considered the American colonies should contribute to the reduction of that debt and many of the measures that brought about the Revolutionary War were to that end.
The British Army was decades behind the Prussian Army in the education of its officers and the training of its soldiers.
www.britishbattles.com /american-revolution.htm   (4161 words)

  
 American English
British usage is "meter" for a measuring device and "metre" for the unit of length.
British power sockets have three thick flat pins in a sort of T-shaped arrangement, plugs are large clumsy things whose only saving grace is a fuse in the plug, the user has to find a screwdriver to connect a plug to a cable.
In British usage "yard" means an area of ground adjacent to a building with a hard surface adapted for use by vehicles and horses, a "garden" is a place where plants are grown.
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html   (12175 words)

  
 The American Revolution (John Bull and Uncle Sam)
By 1776, the British were committed to the view that Parliament must exercise unchallenged authority in all parts of the empire, including the power to tax Americans without their consent.
Most Americans believed themselves to be as English as their kin in the mother country, differing from them only in living in another part of the empire.
The Stamp Act, which taxed Americans for stamps imprinted on a wide variety of legal and official documents, was the first measure passed by the British parliament to arouse widespread antagonism in the thirteen colonies.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/british/brit-2.html   (1994 words)

  
 British American Publishing, LTD
British American Entertainment was British American Entertainment established in 1993, as an extension of the publishing company.
British American Entertainment has an ongoing commitment to bringing works of fine literature to film.
Because of the book properties that were acquired by British American Publishing, it was a natural development within the industry to expand into film.
www.britishamericanpublishing.com /docs/entertainment.cfm   (327 words)

  
 American and British English differences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American English in its written form is standardised across the U.S. (and in schools abroad specialising in American English).
The year 2000 and beyond are read as "two thousand", "two thousand (and) one" and the like by both British and American speakers, although the BBC has recently taken the step of reading dates as "twenty-oh-six" for 2006.
Fifteen minutes before the hour is usually called quarter to in British usage and a quarter of, a quarter to or a quarter till in American usage; the form a quarter to is associated with parts of the Northern U.S., while a quarter till is found chiefly in the Appalachian region.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_and_British_English_differences   (9498 words)

  
 About British American School of Charlotte - The British Schools of America provide high quality education in a ...
The school opened in September 2004 and is part of the British Schools of America, a division of The WCLS Group, a British company which also operates Fieldwork Education and Overseas Schools, Ltd. The British Schools of America also operates sister schools in Boston, Chicago, Houston and Washington DC.
This has enabled the British American School of Charlotte to be highly selective in offering teaching positions to the most experienced, highly qualified and committed of teachers.
The British American School of Charlotte will also become a member of SAIS (Southern Association of Independent Schools) when the school is eligible to become an accredited institution.
www.britishschool.org /site/epage/32214_565.htm   (666 words)

  
 || British American Educare ||
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) measures the ability of nonnative speakers of English to use and understand North American English as it is used in college and university settings.
Lastly and most importantly, it is right to say that British American Educare has helped me and planing them in many reputed Universities abroad.
Lastly and most importantly, it is only right to say that British American has helped me and many other students a lot by matching and placing them in many reputed Universities abroad.
www.britishamerican.edu.np   (364 words)

  
 British American Society
The British American Society's mission is to provide a means for British and other ex-pats to meet each other in a friendly, safe, and fun environment.
The British American Society (BAS) was founded in 1993 by Colleen Garton.
The BAS Network is a group of British expat groups in the USA and Canada who have come together to form a nationwide British Network group.
www.britishamericansociety.com   (191 words)

  
 British American Tobacco - SourceWatch
British American Tobacco (BAT) is the world's second largest private tobacco company.
The revelation further complicated British politician Kenneth Clarke's candidacy to head the Conservative Party.
The Butt Littering Trust, a group funded mainly by the world's second largest cigarette company, British American Tobacco, has been funding education campaigns to clean up cigarette butts in partnership with some local councils, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=British_American_Tobacco   (812 words)

  
 Teak Furniture by British American, Quality Patio Furniture
It built the tall ships of the Royal British Navy, the fine furniture for British colonies throughout the tropical regions of the world, and of most import to us, the elegant outdoor benches that have long graced the great public parks, cultural institutions and grand country estates of England.
From the very beginning to this very day, we have been committed to the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship to guarantee that our British American outdoor furniture is truly the finest in the world.
Today, British American has become one of the premier providers of fine teak outdoor furniture to parks, municipalities, cultural institutions and universities throughout the United States.
www.britam.com   (536 words)

  
 Customer Successes: British American Tobacco México
Because B.A.T. México was the first pilot implementation for Siebel, the stakes were high for both the customer and the software vendor, given the complexity of the deployment and the potentially negative impact on cash flow and market share that could ensue from a disruption in operations.
In 2004, the Mexican subsidiary of British American Tobacco, B.A.T. México, became the first company worldwide to go live on Siebel Mobile Sales, a new solution within Siebel Sales Force Automation that provides an end-to-end solution for all sales, distribution, and trade marketing activities from the handheld to the back office.
British American Tobacco had already standardized on Siebel as its global CRM platform when B.A.T. México launched its Siebel Mobile Sales pilot in 2003.
www.mercury.com /us/customers/successes/bat.html   (1201 words)

  
 British American Biodiesel
BABCO is an international corporation with worldwide interests in the recovery of oil, oil blending and the developments in the use of plants and trees for the production of bio fuel.
In 1996, British American started a research and development programme to look into the development of alternative fuels in USA, UK, Malaysia, Canada and Africa.
An extensive programme of research and development took place into the recycling of hydrocarbons and petroleum waste, residual fuel oils, recycled vegetable oils, palm oil and oils from the Jatropha seeds.
www.britishamericanbiodiesel.com   (803 words)

  
 The Romantics Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
American Society of Jane Austen Scholars (University of Georgia and University of Wisconsin-Whitewater).
Olaudah Equiano (Angelo Costanzo) Equiano in the context of American slave narratives.
American Verse Project Online collection of American poetry published before1920, with many texts from the 19th century (The Humanities Text Initiative and the Univ. of Michigan Press.
www.unm.edu /~garyh/romantic/romantic.html   (888 words)

  
 English (British) - American Dictionary
This may be similar to the American distinction between "attorney" and "lawyer", however the distinction is greater.
Someone (reference lost) once remarked that if Jane Austen had been writing her novels as an American (particularly in the South), she would have written "The Pride and The Prejudice", but I think this was half jest.
The Best of British, by Mike Etherington, is a comprehensive list of British terms and their U.S. equivalents, spiked with humorous details.
www.bg-map.com /us-uk.html   (1504 words)

  
 Spelling differences between British and American English
In British English, words that end in -l preceded by a vowel usually double the -l when a suffix is added, while in American English the letter is not doubled.
Generally, the rule is that if there is a verb form with -ed, American English will use it, and if there is a form with -t, British English uses it.
For example, both American and British English would use the word 'worked' for the past form of 'to work', and in American English it is common to hear the word 'knelt' as the past tense of 'to kneel'.
www.gsu.edu /~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm   (339 words)

  
 VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
The Thomas MacGreevy Archive ("poet, critic, translator, art historian and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland (1950-1963), [MacGreevy] is one of the pivotal figures of Irish Modernism.
His links with Irish, British, American and European writers, artists, art historians, and politicians was so extensive that an examination of his life provides a unique window onto cultural and artistic interconnections for the first three quarters of the twentieth century") (Susan Schreibman, New Jersey Institute of Technology)
American Women Writers 1890 to 1939 -- Modernism and Mythology (general info and links relating to Modernist women writers, plus info on the impact of mythology and the occult) (Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg)
vos.ucsb.edu /browse.asp?id=2747   (1944 words)

  
 British American Security Information Council
The British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the Harvard-Sussex Program and VERTIC have prepared a 'Briefing Book for the BWC Sixth Review Conference 2006.
The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) today announced that the respected counter-terrorism professional, Steven Monblatt, would be joining BASIC as Co-Executive Director in Washington, D.C. He will take up his post on October 10, 2006.
Advertisement in British newspapers concerning the situation in the Lebanon, Gaza and Israel, 27 July 2006.
www.basicint.org   (1150 words)

  
 British / American English
The author lived in the UK, and "learned that the "English" and "American" languages have less in common than might be supposed." This is the result.
Some of the differences between British and American English.
Another list of words that differ in British and American English.
www.seanet.com /~slarsson/USUK.html   (422 words)

  
 V8 engine builders suppliers tuners: British American Engines. Chevrolet/Chevy Ford Mopar Rover V8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
V8 engine builders suppliers tuners: British American Engines.
Our sister company produces replicas and kits of the legendary Daytona Coupe racer - see British American Daytonas for full info.
From street performance to tarmac-ripping supercharged strokers, British American Engines builds V8's with quality, care, and pride.
www.britishamericanengines.co.uk   (208 words)

  
 Real Estate services NY, Commercial Real Estate New York, New York State Realty, general contractor NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Real Estate services NY, Commercial Real Estate New York, New York State Realty, general contractor NY British American is a diverse real estate development company with more than 30 years of experience in a broad scope of services, including in-house design, full-service general contracting, construction management, leasing and property management.
Its commercial real estate brokerage division, British American Realty, Ltd., is complemented by its residential realty firm, Veronica W. Lynch, Inc. In addition, British American also owns and operates book publishing and entertainment companies.
4 British American Boulevard, Latham, NY 12110 518.786.6000 _____________________________________________________________________
www.britamerican.com   (93 words)

  
 *** The American-British Dictionary || British-American Dictionary *** at TravelFurther.net
These dictionaries are here to illustrate the differences between the American and British uses of the English language, in a fun way.
These dictionaries are the work of an American who's lived in England for the past 12 years and counting!!
They are not meant to offend anyone but they certainly have stirred up a few lively debates via the guestbook.
www.travelfurther.net /dictionaries   (129 words)

  
 British American Tobacco Document Collection
Contains some documents not in the British American Tobacco Documents Archive (BATDA).
To find more documents from the British American Tobacco Company, search BATDA.
Prior to the creation of BATDA in October 2004, UCSF collected documents from public health groups, including Health Canada, the British Columbia Ministry of Health, Physicians for a Smokefree Canada, and the World Health Organization.
www.library.ucsf.edu /tobacco/batco   (171 words)

  
 TravelFurther - British-American Dictionary
The colonies and the mother country, America and England, the States and Great Britain, the USA and the United Kingdom - however you wish to refer to them - are two countries so close culturally, yet so different in the use of the English language.
Take a look at these pages before going on your holiday to Florida or when you're getting a bit confused watching that new American programme on the telly.
Ask any questions via the guestbook and check back in a couple of days..
www.travelfurther.net /dictionaries/british-american.htm   (134 words)

  
 Common words in British and American English
Here are a few of the more common words which are different in American and British English.
This is only meant to highlight some of the variety which exists within English, and is not a complete list by any means.
It also does not address different vocabulary which is used in Australia, Canada, South Africa and India as well as the Caribbean, Africa, and the many other places in the world which use English as the language of commerce or government.
www.gsu.edu /~wwwesl/egw/jones/words.htm   (107 words)

  
 British American Auto Care, Inc.
British American Auto Care has been making auto service a pleasant experience for over 27 years.
Their honesty, integrity, unequaled customer service, and the highest quality of work, has resulted in British American Auto Care being voted Best Auto Care Facility in Howard County for over 24 years.
Dont take our word for it, read what our customers tell AAA.
www.britishamericanauto.com   (104 words)

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