Language/English/Vocabulary/Words-with-different-spellings

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Did you know that in English some words can be written in several different ways (they have different spellings).

Here is a list of the main words:

English words  Comment
Acknowledgment/acknowledgement acknowledgment, without the middle e, is preferred in U.S. and Canadian English, while acknowledgement is preferred outside North America.
Adviser/advisor In the U.S. and Canada, advisor is commonly used in official job titles, but adviser is still generally preferred over advisor in North America, and advisor is only marginally more common in American and Canadian English than in other varieties of English.
Aesthetic/esthetic  
Among/amongst  
Analog/analogue  
Archaeology/archeology  
Ax/axe  
Barbecue/Barbeque  
Collectable/collectible  
Disc/disk  
Donut/doughnut  
Enquire/inquire  
Flier/flyer  
Gray/grey  
Nite/night  
Theater/theatre  
Toward/towards  
Whiskey/whisky  

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