What’s the Difference Between American English and British English?
There are larger differences, even in grammar.<p>Brits will say &quot;I&#x27;ve lost my keys&quot; using the present perfect to indicate something in the recent past. On the other hand, Americans will says &quot;I just lost my keys&quot; using the past with &#x27;just&#x27;. These are grammatically different tenses and I think this constitutes a significant variation between the two. This is often overlooked.<p>Moreover, Brits will more often say &quot;I&#x27;ve got&quot; and American will more often say &quot;I have&quot;. You can find this in ESL textbooks and by talking with people. For such a fundamental verb, I consider this a big difference.<p>Source: I was an ESL teacher and I have lived in both the US and the UK