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• «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: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 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 • • • • • • • • • • • • 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