Different Words with the Same Meaning (American vs. British English, respectively)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Summer\/Travel\/Holiday:<\/p>\n Food\/Drink:<\/p>\n Places:<\/p>\n Clothing\/Style:<\/p>\n School:<\/p>\n Same Word; Different Meaning (American vs. British, respectively)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Hope you have a fantastic Fourth of July celebration with your family!<\/p>\n You May Also Like: <\/strong>11 fun facts about the 4th of July<\/a><\/p>\n Prior Post: <\/strong>July Stitch Fix Review<\/a><\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss a post! Please subscribe to Between Us Parents\u2019 completely safe, spam-free email list in the box in the top right corner of the page!<\/p>\n Please like Between Us Parents on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong> You can also find me on Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Between celebrating the Fourth of July this weekend, and listening to the Hamilton soundtrack quite a bit lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the United States achieved independence from the United Kingdom. The two countries are similar and yet very different from one another, and our language is the perfect example. Both countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"US](\"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/flags-38754_640.png\")
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\nBoth countries speak English. When I was in London for six weeks in college, however, I was rather shocked that the language spoken there sounded very different from my Midwestern vernacular. I was reminded of that when the good folks at Dictionary.com<\/a> released a list of some of the most popular variations between American and British English in honor of Independence Day.<\/p>\n\n
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