The difference between American and British English

When a child acquires first knowledge of his or her mother tongue, he usually takes all its peculiarities for granted: he has no other language to compare it with, and no general logical principles to judge it by. Learning one’s mother tongue is a natural process, which has been going on ever since mankind came into being. Things are quite different with mastering a foreign language: when learning it (at whatever age) the student compares it to his mother tongue. (be it Uzbek or Russian) He is often astonished to find great differences in the way ideas are expressed in the two languages, and if the learner is an adult person, he will often be struck by inconsistencies in the foreign language, illogicalities and contradictions in its structure. He will therefore quite naturally be inclined to ask, why is this so? In learning the English language of today, we are faced with a number of peculiarities, which appear unintelligible from the modern point of view.