Download In American English

• «The English have
really everything in
common with
America nowadays,
except, of course,
language.» Oscar
Wilde
The English language
• dominates business
correspondence
• plays the role of the
state language in the USA
• is included in school
curriculum in America
American English
• is
called a simplified one
•is based on the spoken
English of traders and new
bourgeoisie
• is more flexible,
changeable and easier to
use than British English
Intonation patterns
In American English
• there is only one
pattern : a plain
scale and a fall tone
In British English
• there are a lot of
falling, rising and
stepped kinds of
intonation
American English is the most
popular language in the world,
because:
• America remains the top superpower in
the world
• it is wildly spread through advertising,
tourism and television
• all computer technologies, business,
entertaining industry come from
America and work everywhere
Differences in spelling:
In American English:
In British English:
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7.
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7.
Traveler, programing
Check, tire, woolen
Connexion
Curb, gray
Advertize, realize
Learned, dreamed
License (a noun), to
practise (a verb)
Traveller, programming
Cheque, tyre, woollen
Connection
Kerb, grey
Advertise, realise
Learnt, dreamt
To license (a verb),
licence (a noun)
Differences in grammar forms,
rules and in idioms:
American variant:
British variant
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Get- got- gotten
Did he arrive yet?
We work 9 through 5
It is a quarter of 5
It is 20 after 5
In school/in hotel
Get- got- got
Has he arrived yet?
We work from 9 to 5
It is a quarter to 5
It is 20 past 5
At school/at hotel
Differences in pronunciation:
American people
British people
• pronounce [r] in such
words as port, more,
dinner
• pronounce hath and path
with the sound [/\]
• pronounce tune as [tu:n]
• pronounce cot and
caught as [ka:t]
• don’t pronounce this
sound at all
• pronounce hath and path
with the sound [a:]
• pronounce tune as [tju:n]
• pronounce cot and
caught as [ko:t]
Differences in vocabulary:
British and American Pure American words:
use some words that • Highway, mail,
have the same
movie, gas, truck,
meaning, but
litter, pants, last
different spelling:
name, etc.
Am
Br
sidewalk
pavement
elevator
lift
apartment flat
closet
wardrobe
Dialects
Dialects in
American
English
New England
dialect
Southern
dialect
General
American
dialect
Northern
dialect
Conclusion
Having learnt
English properly
we can easily cope
with its American
analogue