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    British and American English have some key differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Pronunciation differs in vowel and consonant sounds, including "a" before certain letters being pronounced as "æ" in British English. Grammatically, British English uses constructions like "half an hour" while American English says "a half hour", and verbs are sometimes conjugated differently between the dialects.

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    British and American English have some key differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Pronunciation differs in vowel and consonant sounds, including "a" before certain letters being pronounced as "æ" in British English. Grammatically, British English uses constructions like "half an hour" while American English says "a half hour", and verbs are sometimes conjugated differently between the dialects.

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    British and American English have some key differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. Pronunciation differs in vowel and consonant sounds, including "a" before certain letters being pronounced as "æ" in British English. Grammatically, British English uses constructions like "half an hour" while American English says "a half hour", and verbs are sometimes conjugated differently between the dialects.

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    British vs.

    American English

    Fundamental Distinctions between


    British and American English
    Three Distinctions in dialect

    Vocabulary

    Pronunciation

    Grammar
    Main differences in PRONUNCIATION

    • Br [a:] before -f, -s, -S, m, n is pronounced [æ]


    (ask, after, half, path, chance, plant, sample)
    • Br [o] in words such as not, block, cross, stop,
    college, doctor, comedy is pronounced [a:]
    • Br [i] in timid, America is often pronounced [ə]
    • Br [a] in but, hurry is pronounced closer to [ə]
    • AmE does not leave out the r-sounds in better,
    perceive, bird, here, poor
    • Br [ju:] after consonants d, t, n is pronounced [u:],
    eg. duty, tune, new
    • Br [t] betw. a vowel and a voiced consonant or
    vowels is pron. more like [d] latter, putting
    • BrE reduces the secondary stress more than AmE, eg.
    secretary, secondary, necessary
    • Suffix -ile is pronounced [-əl] in AmE and [-ail] in BrE,
    eg. agile, fertile, hostile, mobile
    • The British diphthong [əu] is replaced by [ou], which
    does not exist in BrE at all, eg. Oh, no!
    British English American English
    Resource [ri’zo:s] [ri:so:s]
    Figure [figə] [figjər]
    Leisure [ležə] [li:žər]
    Either [aiðə] [i:ðər]
    Research [ri’sə:č] [ri:sə:rč]
    Glacier [glæsiə] [gleišər]
    Schedule [šedjuəl] [skedžəl]
    Clothes [kləuðz] [kləuðz] [klouz]
    twenty [twenti] [twenđi]
    Asia [eiša] [eižə]
    Garage [gæra:ž, gæridž] [gə’ra:ž, gə’ra:dž]
    Lever [li:və] [levər]
    can’t [ka:nt] [kænt]
    Record [reko:d] [rekərd]
    advertisement [əd’və:tismənt] [ædvər’taizmənt]
    Grammar
    British English American English
    half an hour a half hour
    half a bottle a half bottle
    Pneumonia The pneumonia
    tuberculosis the tuberculosis
    five cents a copy (five cents the copy)
    five dollars a pair (five dollars the pair)
    in hospital in the hospital
    at university at the university
    administration are administration is
    council are council is
    crew are crew is
    crowd are crowd is
    jury are jury is
    team are team is
    government are government is
    British American

    company are company is


    plenty of time plenty time
    a couple of months a couple months
    half of the world half the world
    break the news to him break him the news
    carry her things for her carry her her things
    pays no attention to me pays me no attention
    need it badly need it bad
    mightily dangerous mighty dangerous
    really hard real hard
    drive slowly drive slow
    now right now
    here right here
    have you got…? do you have…?
    I haven’t got… I don’t have…
    don’t let’s let’s not
    Have you ever heard…? Did you ever hear…?
    I have just got here. I just got here.
    Have you eaten yet? Did you eat yet?
    burn – burnt – burnt burn – burned – burned
    dream – dreamt – dreamt dream – dreamed – dreamed
    mow – mowed – mowed/mown mow – mowed – mowed
    shine – shone – shone shine – shined – shined
    learn – learnt – learnt learn – learned – learned
    bet – betted – betted bet – bet – bet
    dive – dived – dived dive – dove – dived
    pleaded – pleaded -pleaded plead – pled – pled
    get – got – got get – got – gotten
    I have got (= bought/received) I have gotten
    try to help them try help them
    help me to stand up help me stand up
    let’s go to see the film let’s go see the movie
    go and see if go see if

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