I suck at writing British English! Like, OMG!
The nuances are crazy. I probably only spell proper British spellings about 1/3 of the time when there is a difference in American and English spelling, when trying. I thought I knew punctuation, but turns out... there are all these different things to be anal about! Obviously, there's the punctuation marks inside or outside the quotation marks, of which I was not aware of all the sub-clauses to the rules (but am now well-informed!). Then there are times, which I have to write a lot; for example, in American, the proper way is 7:30 p.m., whereas in British, it's 7.30pm. Even something like street names, for example Hollywood Rd., in American there would be a period after the abbreviated "Road," but not in British.
Ooh and apparently, the Brits say "at the weekend" not "on the weekend." And "knock someone up" in Brit-speak means "wake someone up." HA. Confusion is likely.
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