3 1. British English and American English pronunciation 7 2. British English and American English vocabulary 10 3. British English and American English grammar 13 Conclusions 16 References 17 Introduction The object of this work is to study‚ analyse‚ and most importantly compare differences between two major branches of English language: American English (also called General American) and British English (also called UK English or English English). The term
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A: Hello everyone! Have you ever tried when typing a definitely correct word in Microsoft‚ but it says your word is wrong? Do you know why? It is because of the difference between British and American English. B: To begin with‚ let’s talk about history. In the past‚ the religions of the British & American were different. Christians(that is the Puritans) were persecuted by the other people. So some of them grouped together & went to America because they wanted to leave England. C: They
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Introduction 3 1 Historical review of British and American English 5 1.1 History of English language 5 1.2 History of American English 9 1.3 American and British have changed and go on changing 11 2 Differences between modern British and modern American English 14 2.1 Lexical difference between American and British English 14 2.2 Grammatical difference between American and British English 18 2.3 Spelling differences between American and British English 24 Conclusion 27 Bibliography 29 Introduction
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Content American English…………………………………………………2 Lexical difference…………………………………………………4 Grammatical difference…………………………………………..6 Bibliography……………………………………………….8 Grammatical difference between British and American English. American English. In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to America‚ and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from Indian languages for
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DIFFERENCES AND CONTINUITIES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH (main information taken from BB1 pp. 79-81 and 152-57) Stress on difference and continuity has characterised the story of the relationship between British and American English over the centuries. For instance‚ difference was strongly wanted in the US after Independence and emphasised by the British as sign of their distinction from the new‚ less cultured‚ nation for at least the two following centuries. On the other hand‚ continuity
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American English is now different from its British mother and we could say it is more than another dialect due to its importance nowadays. At the beginning of its history‚ after the American emancipation‚ there were two opposite attitudes towards the language: those who wanted to eradicate any legacy from the colonization and did not want a British model for their language and those who felt language loyalty towards mother- English. But finally‚ as in many British colonies‚ linguistic emancipation
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DISTINCTION BETWEEN BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH ON THE ASPECT OF SOUND SYSTEM Abstract In this paper‚ distincion between British English and American English on the phonetic aspect will be discussed. The whole paper is going to be devided into several parts‚ in the first part various of English accents and the outline of the differences between these two variants of English will be introduced in biref ; In the second part‚ the representative of British English – Recerved pronunciation
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AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH Lexical and grammatical differences LEXICAL DIFFERENCES • Vocab – most noticeable differences • Differ in: – total meaning OR – in one particular sense of usage OR – totally unknown in some varieties REASONS FOR VOCABULARY DIFFERENCES i) New objects & experiences encountered in N. America - new names – adapt or neulogism (i.e. create new word‚ expression or usage) e.g. corn (US); maize (UK) robin small red-breasted (Eng.) large red-breasted (US)
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American English and British English Communication may seem easy‚ but sometimes it is hard to understand between people even though they share the same language. American and British English have the same origin‚ which is the Elizabethan English. This means that Americans and the British speakers share the same language; but nowadays‚ these two varieties somewhat differ from each other. We can find both similarities and differences in both varieties. Even though American and British people can
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