English or American?

[mcgillianaire]

"A number of words that originated in the English of the British Isles are still in everyday use in North America, but are no longer used in most varieties of British English. The most conspicuous of these words are fall, the season; and gotten as a past participle of get. Some dialects of North American English use boughten, especially as a contrast to home-made. Americans are likelier than Britons to name a stream whose breadth or volume is judged insufficient to dignify it with the name of river a creek. The word diaper goes back at least to Shakespeare, and usage was maintained in the U.S. and Canada, but was replaced in the British Isles with nappy. Some of these words are still used in various dialects of the British Isles, but not in formal standard British English. Many of these older words have cognates in Scots."