luggage - baggage

luggage - baggage
In British English, both these words refer to the bags and suitcases that you take with you when you travel, together with their contents. Luggage is more common than baggage.
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In American English, luggage refers to empty bags and suitcases. Baggage refers to bags and suitcases with their contents.
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Both these words are uncount nouns. You do not talk about `luggages' or `a baggage'.
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Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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