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Dear British ao3 authors- yes I could tell you were Brit before u told us, u used words like jumper and trousers. Yea I do love your writing so don’t stress.

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Anonymous 36w

don’t forget torch instead of flashlight (I have read that and thought they were carrying literal torches and was like weird but okay)

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Anonymous 36w

there’s always a stray “mum”

Anonymous 36w

Practise <— you can always tell it’s them

Anonymous 36w

Their lifts and flats and defence and favourites

Anonymous 36w

it's always "in the car park" not the parking lot 😭

Anonymous 36w

“having a lie-in” CLOCKED 🫵📸

Anonymous 36w

The “re”s instead of “er”s also piss me off so bad. ‘Centre’ ‘theatre’ ‘fibre’ get the fuck out of here

Anonymous 36w

Kerb instead of curb

Anonymous 36w

I read a Red Dead Redemption fanfic once and the author was British. It was a whiplash reading the western country slang and British slang at the same time.

Anonymous 36w

Also… WHILST … haha it kills me when I’m reading an American based story

Anonymous

#1 36w

And the u’s (colour)

Anonymous

#1 36w

WAIT WHAT OH MY GOD 😭 this makes so much more sense now thank you i feel dumb

Anonymous

#3 36w

it took me a while to figure that out tbh genuinely thought that they were using like actual torches like you use in minecraft

Anonymous

#2 36w

They love the letter u and fear the letter z

Anonymous

#6 36w

That spelling makes me wanna fight a Brit so bad. I don’t know why it just makes me so unrationably angry.

Anonymous

#6 36w

There is NO WAY they actually spell it “kerb”. They’ve gotta be trying to prank us or something

Anonymous

#6 36w

kerb is too close to kreb makes me think of the kreb’s cycle before thinking of curb

Anonymous

#1 36w

YES YOURE RIGHT

Anonymous

#1 36w

as an american it’s the one piece of brit slang that i like

Anonymous

#7 36w

So true bro I shoulda mentioned thattt

Anonymous

#2 36w

tbf everybody loves u’s except americans i think (source: am 🇨🇦)

Anonymous

#13 36w

Nothing wrong with “whilst” lol 😭 I use it as an American author

Anonymous

#12 36w

Aw, the mental image of that is so cute to me! A little park with swings and a jungle gym that cars could play together in. 😭

Anonymous

#11 36w

Wait I spell defence like that😭

Anonymous

#17 36w

Is theatre not spelled like that in American English? 😭

Anonymous

OP 36w

“theater” is a place, “theatre” is an art

Anonymous

OP 36w

In British English the proper spelling is theatre for both, in American English the two spellings are used to differentiate.