Welcome to the forth post in my series on words that have different spellings in Australia than in the USA.
The purpose of my whole blog is to make everything directed to specifically using, and getting the most out of selling, on eBay Australia. However, it is beneficial to make your items available worldwide as it infinitely expands your potential customer base. So we need to take into account that some words have slightly different spelling variation in the USA and some other countries. If possible we need to incorporate both the Australian and USA spelling in our titles and descriptions.
I have researched this topic and found, what I hope, is a complete list of all the words that have spelling variations.
I will included ALL the words that I have found. I figure that just about anything can be sold on eBay today and you never know what words some people will use to research an item, so don’t laugh if there are words that you feel would never be in an eBay title or description, you just never know when or how they may be used!
This is quite a large list so I have broken it up in to ‘bite-sized’ chunks and will post a list of 10 words each week. So if you know of any words that I have missed, chances are that they are coming up in a future post.
So, here is my forth list of 10 spelling variations:-
1. anaesthesia (Aust) anesthesia (USA)
2. carburettor (Aust) carburetor (USA)
3. disorientated (Aust) disoriented (USA)
4. encyclopaedia (Aust) encyclopedia (USA)
5. flavour (Aust) flavour (USA)
6. harbour (Aust) harbor (USA)
7. labour (Aust) labor (USA)
8. moustache (Aust) mustache (USA)
9. sceptic (Aust) skeptic (USA)
10. vice (Aust) vise (USA)
Check next week for another 10 words that have different spellings from Australia to the USA.
Related posts:-
Australian spelling versus American Spelling #1
Australian spelling versus American Spelling #2
Australian spelling versus American Spelling #3