Icelanders seem to be able to differentiate between British English and American
English, as part three of the survey shows. Question eight in part three was the one that most
participants answered “not sure” The grammatical difference between British English and
American English is very small in this regard and so having most participants answering “not
sure” might be due to the fact that they might not notice the difference.
The research indicates that males, those who had a university education and
participants aged 31-40 were slightly better at determining whether a sentence is written in
British or American English than the other groups. However further studies in this area are
needed to get more accurate results, as the participants did not represent all groups of
Icelandic people.