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In the sentence: We traveled from Italy to France by car the word traveled is spelt in the American way. in British English it is spelt travelled.

We know that the sentence We saw an amazing multicoloured bird in the forest is British English, because colour has a u in it. Americans spell the word in this way: color / multicolored.

The sentence There were three people standing on the pavement next to the shop is British English. Americans usually use the word sidewalk,  not pavement.

Rugby was invented in England (in the town of…Rugby), after a schoolboy picked up a ball during a football match and ran with it. He ruined the game, but invented a new one!

Golf was invented in Scotland, not England.

Basketball as invented by a Canadian in 1891.

The sentence The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog  is used to demonstrate font types in English because it uses every letter in the alphabet.

That’s right – @ – is pronounced at. 

Friday 13th is considered to be an unlucky day. There is debate as to why this might be, but many think it’s because there were 13 disciples at the table during the biblical story of the last supper.

Cats have 9 lives! Lucky them, eh?

The word accommodation has two Cs and two Ms. It means a place to live or stay (often temporary).

The shortest sentence in the English language is: “I am.”

Sometimes, I am so hungry that I get angry.

The whole rhyme goes like this:

Hey diddle diddle,

The Cat and the fiddle,

The Cow jumped over the moon.

The little Dog laughed,

To see such fun,

And the Dish ran away with the Spoon.

Please don’t email us to ask what it means. We have no idea.