Comparison of American and British English

This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which, for the purposes of these articles, are defined as follows:

Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media (comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example). This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called "standard English".