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Essentially the two are both the same language, however the American usage differs slightly. The differences are called 'Americanisms' which can be a change in spelling, a nuance in meaning or a change in accent and/or dialect. Here are a few examples.

Spellings - English (Eng) Colour, harbour etc are the traditional spellings whereas in American (Am) they omit the the latter 'u', thus color, harbor.

(Eng) Cancelled (Am) Canceled

Different words - (Eng) Boot of the car (Am) Trunk of the car

(Eng) Mobile Phone (Am) Cell phone (Eng) Trousers (Am) Pants

(Eng) Pissed off (Am) Pissed

Pronunciation - In American usage the stress often falls in different parts of the word, for example (Eng) vit-amin (Am) vi-tamin

These are just a few examples, please also note that the rules of punctuation also differ in American English -

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