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On Differences between British English and American English Vocabularies Abstract: There exists a huge range of differences between American and British English caused by their different history and culture. Even the same words or the expressions may be different. This paper is to concisely discuss about the differences between American and British English from the perspective of vocabulary. When different words in BRE and AME are used to describe the same thing or the same word has a different meaning, sometimes people will be very confused if they dont know common differences between BRE and AME in meanings and usages. It is because that there are a large number of homonyms and synonyms in BRE and AME. New media and globalization enable more and more people to participate in an active exchange of ideas and experiences and therefore the differences in the versions of English are becoming less instead of greater. Key words: culture; vocabulary; difference; development Introduction Bertrand Russell, who wrote a satire about the English language and social class, said that the Americans and the English are two peoples separated by a common language. There exists a huge range of differences between American and British English caused by their different history and culture. Even the same words or the expressions may be different. This paper is to concisely discuss about the differences between American and British English from the perspective of vocabulary. 1 Origins of BRE and AME English is a member of the Indo-European family of languages. The Indo-European family includes several major branches: Latin and the modern Romance languages; The Germanic languages; The Indo-Iranian languages, including Hindi and Sanskrit; The Slavic languages; The Baltic languages of Latvian and Lithuanian (but not Estonian);The Celtic languages; And Greek. Two of these branches plays an important in the development of English, namely the Germanic and the Romance. English is