Hi, I need to compare a long list of English US sentences with the same list of sentences in English UK. The goal is to build a dictionary of different words/expressions used, for example "color" vs. "colour". The difficulty is that there is not always a 1 to 1 correspondence, so one word in US English might be more than one word in UK English, for example "round trip (ticket)" vs. "return (ticket)". I feel that I'm reinventing the wheel especially that I've seen some diff modules available, however they will compare and flag whole lines instead of just subsets. Is there a module or an easy way to compare the strings and extract only what's different? Thanks!

In reply to Comparing strings to extract the different words/expressions by TravelAddict

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