🌍 American vs British · vocabulary
line vs queue
A row of people waiting their turn for something.
American
line
“We had to stand in line for an hour to buy tickets.”
British
queue
“We had to stand in the queue for an hour to buy tickets.”
Good to know
Americans 'stand in line' while the British 'queue' or 'stand in a queue'. 'Queue' is also used as a verb in British English ('we queued for ages'), and it has entered American tech usage (a print queue).
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