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1、Sweetorcandy?——ThecomparativestudyonBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishMuchastheU.S.AandtheU.KareoriginallyEnglishspokencountries,theydon’tspeakthesamekindofEnglish.Ingeneralview,AmericanEnglishismorepopulartodaywhileBritainEnglishismoreformal.SoIreallywonderthatwhytherecanbesuchdifferencebetweentwocou
2、ntrieshavemanythingsincommon.Asaresult,Iamgoingtoworkitoutinthefollowingpartsofthisessay.FromWIKIPEDIA,wecanknow:“BritishEnglish(BrE)istheformofEnglishusedintheUnitedKingdom.ItincludesallEnglishdialectsusedwithintheUnitedKingdomandAmericanEnglish(AmE)istheformofEnglishusedintheUnitedStates.Itinclude
3、sallEnglishdialectsusedwithintheUnitedStates.”Herearethecommonpointsofthem.BothBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharecalledStandardEnglishwhentheyarewritteninthenewspapersandtextbooks.BothofthemareconsideredstandardEnglishandbothofthemarewidelyspokenalaroundtheworld.However,theirdifferencesarenoticeabl
4、einthespokenforms.AccordingtoWIKIPEDIA,“AmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishdifferatthelevelsofphonology,phonetics,vocabulary,and,toalesserextent,grammarandorthography.”[1]Firstly,let’scometothedifferencesingrammarwhicharerelativelyminor,andnormallydonotaffectmutualintelligibility.AccordingtoWIKIPEDIA,t
5、hesedifferencescontain:differentuseofsomeverbalauxiliaries;differentagreementwithcollectivenouns;differentpreferencesforthepastformsofsomeverbs(forinstance,AmericanEnglish/BritishEnglish:learned/learnt,burned/burnt,snuck/sneaked,dove/dived);differentprepositionsandadverbsincertainsituation(forinstan
6、ce,AmericanEnglishinschool,BritishEnglishatschool);andwhetherornotadefinitearticleisused,insomeinfrequentcases(AmericanEnglishtothehospital,BritishEnglishtohospital;however,AmericanEnglishactressElizabethTaylor,BritishEnglishtheactressElizabethTaylor).[2]Usually,thesedifferencesarearesultofrelativep
7、referencesratherthanabsoluterules.Inotherwords,theymostarenotregular.Thenativespeakerswillunderstandboth.Secondly,let’sfocusonthedifferentorthography.Mostly,thespellingsofwordsinAmericanEnglisharesimp
