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1、AmericanandBritishEnglishAmericanandBritishEnglisharedialects(方言)ofEnglishwhichhavearecognisedstandardformandareequallyacceptableinAcademicEnglishaslongasthestyleandregister(语域)usedareappropriatelyformal.TherearenosignificantdifferencesintheacademicformofothervarietiesofEnglish.Thes

2、etendtoresembleeithertheAmericanorBritishform.Forexample,AustralianEnglishgenerallyusesthesamespellingasBritishEnglish.DifferencesbetweenBritishandAmericanEnglish.Throughoutthispage,blueisusedtodenoteBritishEnglishandredtodenoteAmericanEnglish.Themostnoticeabledifferenceintheacademi

3、ccontextisinspelling.Therearealsogrammaticaldifferencesandvocabularydifferences,althoughrelativelyfewinformallanguage.SpellingIngeneral,bothAmericanandBritishspellingareacceptable,butitisimportanttobeconsistent,atleastwiththeuseofthesameword-theatreortheater,butnotboth-andinyourchoi

4、ceofizeoriseendingsasincriticizeorcriticise,plagiarizeorplagiarise.TheCambridgeInternationalDictionaryofEnglishgivesBritish,AmericanandAustralianEnglishspelling.AmericanspellingtendstoreflectpronunciationandBritishspellingtendstoreflectgrammaticalorhistoricalimplications(含义)aswell.H

5、owever,theremaybeadvantagesinusingBritishspellingincertainsituations.Forinstance,twoforms:programmeandprogramexistinBritishEnglish.Theformercanbeanounreferringtotelevisionprogrammesorprogrammesofevents(plans,conferences,atheatreprogrammeetc.).Thelattercanbeanounreferringtocomputerpr

6、ograms.Bothformscanbeverbs,butthereisnospellingdistinctionbetweenthemexceptintheinfinitiveform(asinShelearnedhowtoprogramthecomputertocalculatethevalueofthepoundagainsttheEuroattwelvehourlyintervals)andthepresenttense.Ifyouwishtomakereferencetobothmeaningsinyourwriting,thenBritishEn

7、glishmakesausefulreference(meaning)distinctionbetweenthetwo,whileAmericanEnglishhasonlyoneformprogramtorefertoboth.BritishEnglishdistinguishesbetweenpractice(noun)Ihaven'tdonemycellopracticeyetandpractise(verb)Hepractisesthecellofortenminuteseverymorning.However,AmericanEnglishtends

8、tousepracticeasboth