Although people still talk about different types of English - American English, Australian English, Indian English - it is interesting to notice how close these are to each other nowadays. Any native speaker reading or listening to another 'type' of English will understand almost every word. Of course, there are differences, and this article gives a few examples of the variation that still exists between American and British English. However, largely because of global communication, cinema, television and especially the internet, different types of English have influenced each other a lot recently. This is typically coming in one direction - from the US to Britain -and it has changed our daily language significantly.