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Lesson or class? Hi everyone? Tom has an English lesson or Tom has an English class? Are both correct? Is "lesson" British English and "class" American English? For driving, piano, I wouldn't use class. Am i right? thanks for your help |
Re: Lesson or class? Both are fine Michèle. Maybe class is used more in AmEng than in BrEng but I think it's a matter of frequency rather than one or the other - I'd say both. |
Re: Lesson or class? Thanks a lot, Susan. |
Re: Lesson or class? I use both... but I think I use class more. But then again I'm a teacher and I don't say "I have an English Class" I just say I have a class. |
Re: Lesson or class? I say both but I probably use 'class' more. If you google for frequency, you get "English class" - 1,240,000 hits "English lesson" - 665,000 hits "piano class" - 123,000 hits "piano lesson" - 509,000 hits "math class" - 1,010,000 hits "math lesson" - 338,000 hits |
Re: Lesson or class? Quote:
But I then did it again restricting the search to UK websites - and therefore presumably British English - only and got : English class 104,000 English lesson 95,000 ie a (very approximately) ratio of 7:6 So class still wins, but as I suspected, there's a big difference in frequency of use between the UK and "the rest of the world". Does Google have a US site where you can restrict to US websites only? Or someone might like to try Australia and other English speaking countries and see what happens. |
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