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net positions those people of that party are essentially governing the us has a presidential system in which the president is elected independently of the legislature the executive presidential and legislative branches of government are accorded their own powers and the party in control of the executive branch may not be in control of either or both of the legislative chambers the senate and the house of representatives so when talking about the president and cabinet it s inaccurate to say things like the obama government let me live in the past please since the president leads only one branch of the government instead we usually speak of the obama administration so this isn t really a difference between ame and bre because if americans talk about british politics they would need the more parliamentary language and if britons talk about american politics they ll need the more presidential language for accuracy but do people always speak accurately about these things for government they mostly do the images below show the most common words between the and government in the ame bre parts of the corpus of global web based english which was collected in 2012 13 when the uk had a coalition government of the conservative and liberal democrat parties there you can see coalition and labour in the uk data but only general adjectives and countries in the american that hasn t changed in more recent data there s little talk about the biden government or the trump government most common words before government in glowbe ame subcorpus most common words before government in glowbe bre subcorpus at american sub national levels it works the same american states have presidential systems just with governors rather than presidents and therefore they have administrations led by the governors and american cities generally have city councils and mayors details vary from state city to state city and so we can talk of the administration of a mayor or a governor you can see that in the glowbe results below where administration is mostly prefaced by names of presidents but also at the bottom bloomberg who was mayor of new york city at the time most common words between the and administration in us glowbe in the uk wales and scotland have their own parliaments and so we see them having governments in the chart above at the county and city level there are councils and people often use the word council instead of government at the local level e g the labour council directly elected mayors are a 21st century thing in england and we don t yet seem to be seeing much use of mayor s name administration i tried johnson administration in glowbe since boris j was london mayor in glowbe time but all examples in the uk referred to lyndon baines johnson the american president and most of the other the ___ administration examples in uk glowbe refer to american politics i also looked for the khan administration in a more current corpus but there one finds it referring to pakistani politics not the government of london but there is an interesting point at the bottom of this chart most common words between the and administration in uk glowbe the labour administration is about 29 times less common than the labour government but it s there a closer look at the data indicates that this use of administration is more common in scotland with most if not all of the labour s from scotland and certainly all of the snp s scottish national party the uk party name administration but that usage is going up across the country the labour conservative administration in the news on the web corpus uk part without any willingness to go through a lot of examples i can t tell you how many of these administrations refer to the uk government versus devolved country governments or local governments but i believe there s a mix there are a very small number of cases of the sunak administration and the starmer administration as well administration is not the first more american political word i ve seen used in a slightly out of sorts way in the uk gerrymander was my us to uk word of the year in 2016 but lest you think political words only go in one direction i ll point you to backbencher my 2015 uk to us word of the year read more labels politics history 22 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook alongside mar 21 2026 a few months ago an american friend of my spouse asked him to ask me why is everyone suddenly saying alongside i hadn t noticed it at that point but once he d mentioned it i felt surrounded by alongside as this google books ngram shows the word has taken off in the 21st century separating out the british and american books we can see that this is a british led trend alongside climbed in british usage throughout the 20th century american english suddenly decided to orig ame play catch up in the 21st century this trend is observable in other corpora too the news on the web corpus for example shows more than double the rate of alongside in british news sources versus american ones alongside by country and within the us news data the rise of alongside has sped up since 2020 alongside on just american news sites among st the prepositions alongside is a relative orig ame newbie in the oed where it s marked as originally nautical its first citation is from 1704 its definition in a position parallel to side by side with close to the side of next to beside so the examples are about boats positioned next to other boats or docks etc it seems to have gradually moved onto land especially in the uk in the 19th century so why have americans suddenly orig ame taken a shine to alongside why is it more attractive than along or beside or next to wondering whether there was a trend toward s longer british prepositions i tried comparing it to amongst but the more bre amongst seems to have peaked in ame about 12 years ago amongst o n american news websites in 2013 the online magazine slate published an article by ben yagoda about americans saying amongst instead of among perhaps once people were talking about the british invasion of amongst americans became more self conscious about it if ben published an article about alongside could that change its fortunes having had alongside pointed out to me i m now self conscious about using it but this blog gives us a record of me using it bre has kerb for the edging alongside a road curb kerb may 2020 british pigs in blankets are small sausages wrapped in bacon and cooked they are delicious they re traditionally served alongside turkey as part of christmas dinner pigs in blankets feb 2020 i ve seen a lot of down with grammar messages often alongside learning should be fun grammar is not the enemy may 2016 so what do you think do i sound britified when i say such things or is alongside completely international now ps searching for commentary about alongside i found some concern about the use of alongside with further orig bre rooting around in the corpora though show that alongside with is a tiny proportion of alongside usages 0 7 per million words in ame 0 8 per million words in bre in the now corpus read more labels britishization prepositions 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook are these words misspelled misspelt most feb 26 2026 the people at wordunscrambler pro sent me a list of the most misspelled bre misspelt words for the uk i get a lot of these we did this thing so that your blog will give us free advertising and i usually ignore them but i ll give this one some attention partly because they sent a us list to language log who published it so i can do some comparison but i first have to gripe a bit here s the methodology we analyzed jan 1 2025 dec 17 2025 search data from google trends for how do you spell and how to spell that s not a method for discovering the most misspelled words that s a method for discovering the most looked up spellings this is the kind of bre jiggery pokery makes me hate headlines if you think to look up a word then you might be insecure or curious about its spelling but that s keeping you from misspelling it i m betting that when they re not looking up spellings like these those people are out in the world like the rest of us are confidently spelling accommodation with one m and letting spellcheck catch it for them or not nevertheless the wu pro folks showed admirable linguistic sensitivity in not declaring the americanisms on the list misspelled instead they note repeatedly that both the us and uk variants are correct united kingdom s most misspelled words queried spellings 1 colour 109 200 searches both colour and color are correct 2 favourite 82 900 searches both favourite and favorite are correct 3 license 59 000 searches 4 diarrhoea 58 700 searches both diarrhoea and diarrhea are correct 5 jewellery 56 400 searches 6 definitely 53 000 searches 7 auntie 50 400 searches both auntie and aunty are correct 8 weird 48 000 searches 9 business 46 800 searches 10 behaviour 40 800 searches both behaviour and behavior are correct 11 neighbour 39 600 searches both neighbour and neighbor are correct 12 country 29 000 searches 13 queue 22 800 searches 14 gorgeous 22 600 searches 15 necessary 23 000 searches i ve added the blue to show which ones are also on the us top 10 which i ve copied at the bottom of this post not sure why the uk got a top 15 and the us a top 10 nor why necessary has more searches but is lower on the list than queue some of these are definitely difficult others like country surprised me but let s have a little look at whether people do misspell them using the corpus of global web based english i m using that one even though it s 13 years old now because web based english is more likely to include misspellings than the published writing in other comparative corpora i won t try to cover all of them just the ones that strike me as transatlantically interesting postscript on the same day as i wrote this post another company released its much better analysis of british misspellings see the bottom of this post for more on that us uk variants where there are us uk variants it s often the case that the corpus has included american writing and tagged it as gb because it s on a british website or vice versa for that reason i ve in another post used or our spellings as a diagnostic for how reliable the country tagging is in glowbe so it s not necessarily the case that bre writers are mispelling them or our in that vein the following graph shows that there s probably more ame writing on uk websites than bre writing on ame websites which is not so surprising since there are presumably about 5 times more us than uk writers on the internet and text from american wire services and other companies might be reprinted wholesale on uk sites rates of our versus or spellings in glowbe but the other thing to take from the our or chart is canadian spelling is in crisis the standard canadian our spellings only just outnumber the or ones meanwhile the canadian prime minister recently got into trouble for using british ise spellings that are not traditionally canadian licence license license is a tricky one because it s the correct spelling for bre when it is a verb but it is licence in bre when it is a noun s in ame for both the first chart here shows a lot of incorrect for bre license as a noun in the gb corpus but that will again be partly due to american writing on british websites rather than british writers misspelling it it s hard to know how much each factor contributes so more interesting from a misspelling standpoint is licenced which is incorrect in all englishes but about 5 of the uk spellings license is definitely a word that britons misspell i was surprised not to see practice practise on the uk misspelling list you can read more about that at an older post if you d like to diarrhea diarrhoea this one seems to have little to do with us uk confusion diarrh o ea is just difficult and unpleasant for everyone and personal everybody s misspelling it their own ways the crossed out ones are names that happened to be caught on my search for diarr a i don t envy them their diarr a names jewellery jewelry jewellery is not marked with jewelry is also correct in wu pro s list but jewelry is the correct spelling in ame the ame bre spelling difference is surely adding to the confusion about how to spell it but the word is just difficult in its own right with that double l and three syllable pronunciation jewelry here s a shortened list of spellings in glowbe there are lots more one off spellings where the older now ame spelling jewelry appears more than 1 3 of the time on the uk sites but some definite misspellings make their way in too the later jewellery spelling seems to have derived from jeweller y the stuff that the jeweller makes analogous to pottery while jewelry derives from jewel ry products created from jewels analogous to pastry balladry in 1901 the oed commented about bre usage in commercial use commonly spelt jewellery the form jewelry is more rhetorical and poetic and unassociated with the jeweller but the pronunciation with three syllables is usual even with the former spelling so we might consider jewelry to be ame and old fashioned bre words that are just hard to spell weird it s been my perception that weird is more a problem in uk spelling and glowbe bears that out a little bit with wierd a greater proportion of the uk forms about 3 than the us about 2 country most people don t seem to have a problem with spelling country but those who misspell it are not more likely to be british queue the word is much more common in bre but hard to spell everywhere and yet people seem to mostly get it right leaving off the final e sometimes happens but really not much i d expected to find the word spelled like its homonyms cue and q but there aren t many such misspellings for the following chart i searched for queue queu que q and cue but none of the queu spellings showed up in the in a phrasing the q spelling might be an abbreviation rather than a misspelling but it s striking that the cue homonym is absent from the british entirely these people know a queue s a queue i m going to leave it there but feel free to comment on these or the other words on the lists footnotes the fact that misspelled misspelt has two spellings complicates the old joke which word is always misspelled misspelled or is it misspelt anyway i have an old post on ed versus t past tenses the american list via language log america s most misspelled words definitely 33 500 searches separate 30 000 searches necessary 29 000 searches believe 28 500 searches through 28 000 searches gorgeous 27 000 searches neighbor 25 500 searches business 24 200 searches favorite 23 000 searches restaurant 22 500 searches postscript 28 feb another study another company s marketing ploy but a much better analysis of misspelling though only for children around 530 million spelling attempts from 936 926 pupils across the country were e...