difference between among and amongst

among - (дунд, дотор)
(also amongst/əˈmʌŋst)
1 surrounded by someone or something; in the middle of someone or something
      ---- I found the letter amongst his papers.
      ---- a house among the trees
2 used when you are dividing or choosing something, and three or more people or things are involved
       ----- They divided the money up among the children.

difference between among and amongst

• No difference in meaning.
  
  Amongst is more literary(бичгийн), also more common in British usage.

• In modern language, there is no real difference between among and amongst. However, there is a historical grammatical basis. In Old English verbs are assigned to a transitive or intransitive category, transitive verbs generally denoting a physical movement. Note that this differs from what we commonly now call transitive and intransitive verbs. Anyways, transitive verbs are matched with transitive prepositions so one could say, for example “go amongst” or “sit among.” Residual vocabulary for many examples continue to exist though this rule has fallen out of use. Consider: here vs. hither, there vs. thither, along vs. alongst (still used in some American dialects). Similar grammar survives in English’s cousins, the Scandinavian langauges.
  
• Amongst is a variant of among. There is no difference between them. While amongst is fairly common—though still rare compared to among—in British, Australian, and Canadian English, it is rare in American English and may even have an archaic ring.
  The -st at the end of amongst is a holdover from a period of English in which s sounds were added to words (usually nouns) to make adverbs. Other examples of words inflected this way include always, once, whence, and unawares, and there are a few other -st adverbs such as whilst and amidst.
  
  
• 1.’Among’ is more frequent in American English whereas ‘amongst’ occurs more often in British English.
  2.Amongst is mostly used in a dramatic or poetic context whereas among is commonly used with the plural objects of the preposition.
  3.Among is more popular in U.S. whereas amongst in U.K.