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| | American and British English differences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | American English is the form of English used by people in the United States and, as a lingua franca or second language, by people in many parts of the world. | | | Like American English, it is used in many parts of the world as a lingua franca. | | | Typically, American English capitalises all the letters (NATO, AIDS), whereas British English prefers to use the initial capital only (Nato, Aids). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
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| | American English |
| | Several correspondents have also noted that the British usages "centre" and "theatre" are displacing the American usages, particularly where the establishment in question wants to suggest that it is of superior quality. | | | A correspondent has suggested that AE uses "pudding" with the same meaning as the BE "jelly", see entry for "Jell-O". | | | The American usage would be familiar to British ears. |
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http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html
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| | American and English Literature Internet Resources |
| | Jack Lynch's American Literature Page A very useful source of literary links including links to mailing lists, Voice of the Shuttle American Literature page, American Verse Project, Native American Literature, University of Virginia literary pages, and extensive information on individual authors and poets. | | | Contains general criticisms on authors and specific periods, text archives and other comprehensive resources, journals listservs, newsgroups, English and comparative literature departments page and a course page enumerating courses and syllabi. | | | This project is sponsored by the University of Rochester. |
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http://library.scsu.ctstateu.edu/litbib.html
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| | American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The interior of the country was settled by people who were no longer closely connected to England, as they had no access to the ocean during a time when journeys to Britain were always by sea. | | | Other American introductions include "belittle," "gerrymander" (from Elbridge Gerry), "blizzard", "teenager", and many more. | | | American English is also sometimes called United States English or U.S. English. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
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| | American English |
| | Sizer, Miriam M. "Christian Names in the Blue Ridge of Virginia." American Speech 8(Apr. 1933): 34-37. | | | "The Speech of East Texas." American Speech 11(Feb. 1936): 3-36. | | | "The Speech of East Texas (II)." American Speech 11(Apr. 1936): 145-166. |
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http://www.wright.edu/~martin.kich/AmerReg/South.htm
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| | Phonological Atlas of North America |
| | A complete revision of Chapter 11 of the Atlas of North American English. | | | The Atlas will be published in 2005 by Mouton/de Gruyter. | | | The Telsur Project is a survey of linguistic changes in progress in North American English, supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html
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| | Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Southern . Sounds PBS |
| | In a recent study of folk beliefs about American dialects, Dennis Preston (1996) found that 90% of his respondents from Michigan and Indiana and 96% of those from South Carolina recognized SAE as a distinct variety of American English. | | | English with an Accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States. | | | Traditionally, SAE differed from other varieties of American English in some of its lexical, grammatical, and phonological features, but many of the lexical differences, which were rooted in an agrarian economy and a traditional society, have begun to disappear. |
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http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/southern/sounds
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| | American Dialects |
| | Keep in mind, of course, that the status of English in America is a politically volatile issue; see most recently this | | | As a result, the people who speak English in these countries are largely descended from English immigrants and other immigrants who assimilated to the local variety of English. | | | Native American languages have had a substrate impact on American English, of course. |
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http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301w98/nov11.html
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| | American English |
| | Brown's moralistic prescriptivism is perhaps best revealed in his assertion that "The grammatical use of language is in sweet alliance with the moral" (1851, p. | | | American English is regarded as having preserved archaic features which have since been altered in British English--i.e., American speech maintained features of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English--such as the preservation of r in most dialects, and "flat a" [æ] as in "path": features that were lost in southern England at the end of the eighteenth century. | | | As the people through this extensive country will speak English, their advantages for polishing their language will be great, and vastly superior to what the people of England ever enjoyed. |
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http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hel/helmod/america.html
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| | The Distinctive Vowel Sounds of British and American English |
| | Here the vowels of American English are plotted according to the point of primary obstruction by the tongue in the articulation of the sound. | | | The Distinctive Vowel Sounds of British and American English | | | You may wish to compare Peter Ladefoged's contrasting sets of General American English vowels and BBC vowels |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/vowels.html
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| | The English-to-American Dictionary |
| | Best known in the US as an advice columnist. | | | Americans call them "answering machines", which is also used more than "answerphone" in the UK these days. | | | The only real way in which they differ is that you could call someone an "arse" without any adjective and without implying that you thought s/he was a donkey of some sort. |
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http://english2american.com/dictionary/a.html
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| | The American Dialect Homepage |
| | Also, due to other pressures on my time and a somewhat reduced interest (read "nationalism") I have had to largely leave off maintaining the world English dialect links, and decided to concentrate on the North American varieties. | | | Regional Varieties of English in the United States | | | Welcome to the American Dialect homepage, an effort to bridge the gap between the scholarly and literary worlds of dialectology. |
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http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
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| | The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America |
| | The end product of the survey is the Phonological Atlas of North America, which maps the phonological organization of all English dialects and the extent of ongoing sound changes. | | | The Phonological Atlas provides the first national view of American phonology, more systematic and considerably simpler than the information that has been gleaned from dialectology over the past sixty years. | | | The survey is based on a sampling method that is sensitive to both population and geography. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html
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| | American English |
| | Smith, W. "Pidgin English in Hawaii." American Speech 8(Feb. 1933): 15-19. | | | "The English Dialect of Hawaii." American Speech 9(Apr. 1934): 122-131. | | | "English Patterns in Hawaii." American Speech 45(1970): 234-39. |
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http://www.wright.edu/~martin.kich/AmerReg/Hawaii.htm
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| | English (British) - American Dictionary |
| | I believe that what has been said on these pages is more historical - while people still tend to train and to practice either as barristers (in court) or solicitors (in offices), I believe the legal distinction between them has been removed | | | Someone (reference lost) once remarked that if Jane Austen had been writing her novels as an American (particularly in the South), she would have written "The Pride and The Prejudice", but I think this was half jest. | | | I am an Australian, an I deal regularly with those from the United States and the United Kingdom, so I believe I have some insight into the differences between US and UK English. |
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http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html
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| | United Kingdom English for the American Novice |
| | However, in general, the English pronunciation is more "clipped" and is said at twice the rate of American. | | | English words often have several meanings and only those which differ (from American) are listed here. | | | Mixed case words may be safely interpreted by the American reader. |
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http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict
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| | E. L. Easton - American English |
| | North American English: Phonological Atlas Univ. of Pennsylvania | | | Literature African American / chronology / Roger Blackwell Bailey | | | American English Cambridge History of English and American Literature |
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http://eleaston.com/am-eng.html
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| | The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21 |
| | Considered the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published, the Cambridge History contains over 303 chapters and 11,000 pages, with essay topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama and essays to history, theology and political writing. | | | The Cambridge History of English and American Literature | | | The set encompasses a wide selection of writing on orators, humorists, poets, newspaper columnists, religious leaders, economists, Native Americans, song writers, and even non-English writing, such as Yiddish and Creole. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge
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| | English Club ~ Learn English Teach English |
| | ESL is used when people learn English in an English-speaking country. | | | EFL is used when people learn English in a non-English-speaking country. | | | But there are some important technical considerations for those who teach English in these different situations. |
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http://www.englishclub.com
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| | British / American English |
| | Words that can be confusing and embarassing in the UK and US | | | that seemed strikingly different from American usage, or that were funny." Sounds good to me... | | | The author lived in the UK, and "learned that the "English" and "American" languages have less in common than might be supposed." This is the result. |
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http://home.ncia.com/~slarsson/USUK.html
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| | English Language Institute |
| | American University continues to support international students through the Writing Center, the Writing Lab, and tutoring. | | | Information contained in this web site is subject to change without notice. |
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http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/acainst/eli
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| | American and English Literature Online Books |
| | This page contains links to online books in American literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents. | | | English literature; some classics from the Greek, French, Russian | | | American politics, culture and ideas; Rick Gardiner's page |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/online.htm#B
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| | Intensive English Center - ESL Program at International College |
| | Within 4 months, I could understand most conversational English as well as write and speak the language. | | | Having no English language skills when I arrived in the United States, I enrolled in the IEC (English as a Second Language Program) at International College. | | | A College Preparatory English course is also available for advanced students. |
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http://www.internationalcollege.edu/esl
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| | American English Home Page |
| | It amazes me how each individual member of American English is so like his counterpart in The Beatles. | | | "American English is the best Beatle act since The Beatles!!!" | | | "American English is the best Beatles tribute band in the world!" |
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http://www.americanenglishbeatles.com/mainpage.htm
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| | Common Errors in English |
| | Because I’m an American, my students are mostly American, most English-speaking Web users are Americans, and American English is quickly becoming an international standard. | | | If you search for the word “English” in Google, which gives a measure of popularity by ranking its results in order of the number of links other people have created to them, my site is number 2. | | | I could take the easy way out and say I’m a professor of English and do this sort of thing for a living. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html
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| | Spelling differences between British and American English |
| | For example, both American and British English would use the word 'worked' for the past form of 'to work', and in American English it is common to hear the word 'knelt' as the past tense of 'to kneel'. | | | Generally, the rule is that if there is a verb form with -ed, American English will use it, and if there is a form with -t, British English uses it. | | | With written English, however, if you are unsure about the spelling, better to ask your teacher or look the word up in the dictionary and see what the experts say. |
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http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/jones/differences.htm
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| | (American) English Spelling |
| | Alternative spellings, especially British vs. American, should also be noted. | | | Burden, Peter, WWlib - Notes on American English, University of Worlverhapton November 17, 2000 | | | (The preference characterizes American English; British English seems to prefer doubling, though it often allows its omission. |
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http://www.studygs.net/spelling.htm
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| | American English Institute, University of Oregon |
| | Welcome to the American English Institute (AEI) at the University of Oregon. | | | The AEI has provided English language instruction since 1977 to international students and educators who want to enter American universities or learn English for personal or professional reasons. | | | The institute's goal is to help students learn to communicate and study effectively in English and to gain a greater understanding of American culture. |
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http://aei.uoregon.edu
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| | Symbols for American English Vowel Sounds |
| | The second is the Sun name for the phoneme sample (which is in most cases the same as the symbol used by First Byte in Monologue for Windows and its DOS forebears). | | | Bear well in mind, however, that the Cardinal framework is for placing the vowels of all languages, not just English, and the matchup is approximate and incomplete. | | | Moreover, in Canadian and much of US speech, the vowels of cause and cot have merged. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/dillon/PhonResources/newstart.html
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| | American English Spot Rabbit Club Web Site |
| | The American English Spot Rabbit Club is now in it's eightieth year and offers its members and friends an exciting adventure. | | | Telling you month by month what is going on in the spot world. | | | The English Spot is one of the oldest breeds in the world. |
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http://www.englishspots.8m.com
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| | English to English |
| | When I first came to America, twenty two years ago, even though I spoke English, the words coming out of my mouth often resulted in puzzled looks and blank stares, the reason being, I didn't speak AMERICAN English. | | | I now speak it (and write it) rather fluently, and often interchange words because I'm an inconsistant git (idiot). | | | In attempts to help more people butcher their vocabulary, I have compiled this incomplete dictionary of American and British words (and spellings), in my free time, and Bob's your uncle. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2284
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| | The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 |
| | This book is designed to inform you about current problems in English usage so you can make intelligent decisions when communicating. | | | With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style. | | | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Usage > American Heritage |
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http://www.bartleby.com/64
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| | English Daily - Learn American idioms, English conversation |
| | English Daily - Learn American idioms, English conversation | | | If you are an enthusiastic English learner and would like to be informed of new content, click the My yahoo button below. | | | My sister asked her husband, "Why do you always talk in your sleep?" To this he replied, "Because I've got little chance to talk when I'm awake." |
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http://www.englishdaily626.com
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| | Bell Labs Text-to-Speech |
| | If you plan to enter text which our system might consider to be obscene, check here to certify that you are old enough to hear the resulting output. | | | Advanced Interface (English, German, French, Spanish) (requires JavaScript enabled browser, such as Netscape3) |
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http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/voices.html
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| | Literature Online - Marketing Site |
| | With over a third of a million full-text works of poetry, prose and drama in English, together with the definitive online criticism and reference library, Literature Online is the world's largest cross-searchable database of literature and criticism. | | | Use our interactive demo to find out more about the unique content and features of Literature Online. | | | RESOURCES FOR USERS : TEACHING & RESEARCH LIBRARIANS STUDENTS |
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http://lion.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp
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