Here's a list of words which are in the GB English dictionary, but not the US English dictionary: axe, dialogue, spilt, and vortices. All of them are acceptable alternate spellings in US English, whereas the word colour would not be.
Both dictionaries are also missing the alternate spellings slinked and wrapt.
The dictionaries have the spelling mêlée but not melee, which is not the preferred spelling in either Merriam-Webster or American Heritage.
The dictionaries have the spelling facade but not façade; the former is preferred by Merriam-Webster, the latter by American Heritage.
And the dictionaries are of course also missing an assortment of esoteric words: baronetess, cutpurse, de, doppelganger, er, ichor, imperator, judicator, marquessate, moonrise, moonset, nescience, pikeman, pikemen, pontifex, puzzlingly, rainforest, slinked, spearman, thaumaturgy, unreachably, and viscounty.
Finally, however, both dictionaries are missing the word okay (an alternate spelling of OK, sadly). This seems like an extremely common word to be missing, but perhaps I'm the only person on earth that spells it this way.
At any rate, is there anything I can do to help?
-- Ian D. Bollinger
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