Notes on usage: Underground / subway / metro / tube

 

BrE = British English | NAmE = North American English

 

A city’s underground railway/railroad system is usually called underground (often the Underground) in BrE and the subway in NAmE. Speakers of BrE also use subway for system in American cities and metro for systems in other European countries. The Metro is the name for the systems in Paris and Washington, D.C. London‘s system is often called the tube.

 

 

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See also:

Common Phrasal Verbs	Irregular Verbs List
Common Sentences Errors	Frequently confused words
Common Clichés	Thematic list of Idioms
Common misspellings	Phrasal Verbs Particles list
Common Preposition	Lista de Términos Gramaticales

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