bath or bathe?
There are major differences between the United States and other parts of the English-speaking world in the use of these words. In the United States, bath cannot be used as a verb and bathe cannot be used as a noun, whereas in British English they can. Shall I bath the baby? and I'm going for a bathe, in which the difference between the two words is that the first refers to washing and the second to swimming in the sea, are not American uses. In most varieties of English, bathe is also used of immersing things in water to clean or moisten them. In the United States, bathe means "to wash yourself or somebody else in a bathtub": I'm going to bathe.I'm going to bathe the baby.
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