🌍 American vs British · vocabulary
subway vs underground
An underground urban railway system.
American
subway
“We took the subway from Brooklyn into Manhattan.”
British
underground
“We took the underground from one side of London to the other.”
Good to know
Americans say 'subway' while Londoners say 'the underground' (or 'the Tube'). Confusingly, in British English a 'subway' is usually a pedestrian tunnel under a road, not a railway.
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