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1、AmericanandBritishEnglishAmericanandBritishEnglisharedialects（方言）ofEnglishwhichhavearecognizedstandardformandareequallyacceptableinAcademicEnglishaslongasthestyleandregister（语域）usedareappropriatelyformal.TherearenosignificantdifferencesintheacademicformofothervarietiesofEnglish.Thesetendt

2、oresembleeithertheAmericanorBritishform.Forexample,AustralianEnglishgenerallyusesthesamespellingasBritishEnglish・DifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish.Throughoutthispage,blueisusedtodenoteBritishEnglishandredtodenoteAmericanEnglish.Themostnoticeabledifferenceintheacademiccontextisin

3、spelling.Therearealsogrammaticaldifferencesandvocabularydifferences,althoughrelativelyfewinformallanguage.SpellingIngeneral,bothAmericanandBritishspellingareacceptable,butitisimportanttobeconsistent,atleastwiththeuseofthesameword-theatreortheater,butnotboth-andinyourchoiceofizeoriseending

4、sasincriticizeorcriticize,plagiarizeorplagiarize.TheCambridgeInternationalDictionaryofEnglishgivesBritish,AmericanandAustralianEnglishspelling.AmericanspellingtendstoreflectpronunciationandBritishspellingtendstoreflectgrammaticalorhistoricalimplications（含义）aswell.However,theremaybeadvanta

5、gesinusingBritishspellingincertainsituations.Forinstance,twoforms:programmeandprogramexistinBritishEnglish.Theformercanbeanounreferringtotelevisionprogrammesorprogrammesofevents（plans,conferences,atheatreprogrammeetc）Thelattercanbeanounreferringtocomputerprograms.Bothformscanbeverbs,butth

6、ereisnospellingdistinctionbetweenthemexceptintheinfinitiveform（asinShelearnedhowtoprogramthecomputertocalculatethevalueofthepoundagainsttheEuroattwelvehourlyintervals）andthepresenttense.Ifyouwishtomakereferencetobothmeaningsinyourwriting,thenBritishEnglishmakesausefulreference(meaning)dis

7、rinsionbaween〔heiwpwhioAmericanEnglishhasonlyoneformprogram〔0refertobo〔h・BritishEng一ishdisHnguishesbetweenpractice(noun)IhavenYdonemyce=opracticeyaandpractise(verb)Hepractises(hecellofortenminuteseverymosing・However-AmericanEnglishtendstousePSCHCeasbothanounandaverb