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Past Participle

  • Verb: burn - BE: burnt AE: burned
  • Verb: dream - BE: dreamt AE: dreamed
  • Verb: lean - BE: leant AE: leaned
  • Verb: spill - BE: spilt AE: spilled
  • Verb: learn - BE: learnt AE: learned
  • Verb: smell - BE: smelt AE: smelled
  • Verb: spell - BE: spelt AE: spelled

Rhotic or Non Rhotic

pronunciation

THE SCHWA

Americans pronounce T's differently to Britons , often changing T-sounds into softer D-sounds between vowels.

Examples: Letter, better, writer, brighter

Pronunciation of "r" - example "car"

(rhotic/non-rhotic)

Intrusive R

British and American English

Vocabulary

American English British English 1) Hood = 1) Bonnet

2) Trunk = 2) Boot

3) Truck = 3) Lorry

4) Candy = 4) Sweets

5) Cookies = 5) Biscuit

Standard American English

Written: The variety of the English language that is generally used in professional writing in the United States and taught in American schools

Spoken: General American (GA) is a major accent of American English

  • Words ending in -re:

British: centre, fibre, metre, theatre (influence from French)American: center, fiber, meter, theater

  • The adjectival forms of these words are the same in both conventions: Central, fibrous, metric, theatrical

Difference between standard american english and standard british English

How can you tell whether an English-speaker is from Britain or the USA?

Standard British English

Written: The variety of the English language that is generally used in Britain (or in England or Southeast of England) and taught in British schools

Spoken: A variety of British English spoken without an identifiable regional accent. Also called received pronunciation (RP)

Spellings

Words ending in

  • -or (American) Color, humor, flavor
  • -our (British) Colour, humour, flavour

Words ending in

  • -ize (American) Recognize, patronize
  • -ise (British)

Recognise, patronise

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