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1、DifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishAbstractEnglishisoneofthemostimportantlanguagesintheworld.Itisimportantbecauseofitsworldwideuse.Englishisunmistakablyonelanguagebutcanbegroupedintotwomajorvarieties,BritishandAmericanEnglishwhichhavetheirowncharacter.Withthedevelop
2、mentofthetwocountries__AmericaandtheUK,thedifferencesinsomefieldsareclearandarealsoreflectedintheirlanguage.Keywords:AmericanEnglish,BritishEnglish,differences,pronunciation,spelling,meaning,use.Englishisthemoststudiedandusedlanguageintheworld.TherearemanydifferentaspectsbetweenAm
3、ericanEnglishandBritishEnglish,andhere,ijustwanttointroducethedifferencesinthefollowingaspects:spelling,pronunciation,vocabularygrammaretc.ⅠdifferencesinspellingBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharebelongtothesamesystem,butthetwocountriesinthespellingsystemarestillalittledifferent.⑴
4、AmericanspellingalwaysmoreadjustedtothespellingregularityandpronunciationthanBritishEnglish.ThemosttypicalexampleinAmericanEnglishinuse–oror–erinsteadof–ouror-re.e.g.:colorcolourcentercentrehumorhunourkilometerkilometre⑵Americanspellingalwaysavoidtherepetitionoftheletterofconsonan
5、t.Generally,lisnotdoubledinAmericanEnglish.e.g.:canceledcancelingcancelledcancellingmarveledmarvelingmarvelledmarveling⑶Americanspellingalwayssimplifiedsomelettercompoundlike–e-ae–oe-o-oue.g.:estheticaestheticmoldmould⑷Americanspellingalwaysomittheun-pronouncedletters.e.g.:catalog
6、catalogueaxaxedialogdialoguegood-bygood-byeⅡ.DifferencesinPronunciation:⒈differencesinindividualsounds⑴Americansretaintherattheendofthewordscar,etc.,orbeforeconsonantsasinhard,etc.;inBritishEnglishtherisnotpronounced,asinteacher['ti:tʃə].BrEstar[sta:]car[ka:]AmEstar[stʌr]car[stʌr]
7、⑵Intermsoftheconsonant,themostobvioussystematicdifferenceisthepronunciationof/r/behindvowelsinAmericanEnglish.ButthispronunciationdonotexistinBritishEnglish.Herearesomeexamples:AmEBrEdoor/dɔ:r//dɔ:/father/`fa:ðər//`fa:ðə/pleasure/`pleʒər//`pleʒə/⑶Theotherimportantsystematicisthepr
8、onunciationof/t/betweentwovowels.