Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences
This article outlines the differences between American English, the form of the English language spoken in the United States, and Commonw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Writing
American and British English differences - Spelling. Main article: American and British English spelling differences Some words share...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Grammar
American and British English differences - Singular and plural for nouns. In British English, singular nouns that describe multiple pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Lexis
Most of the differences are in connection with concepts originating from the nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, where new w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences
The differences in the spellings of British English and American English are as follows: Many of the differences were introduced into the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Differences In British English And American English
Main article: American and British English differences American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British Englis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Stress
American and British English pronunciation differences - French stress. For many loanwords from French where AmE has final-syllable str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British English: Encyclopedia - British English
British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate the form of the English language used in the United Kingdom from other forms of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia - American English
American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. It is estimated that approxima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American: Encyclopedia - British American
British Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry stems, either wholly or in part, from one of the four constituent nati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English
African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Black English, Black Vernacular, or Black English Vernacular (BEV), is a type of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American Racing: Encyclopedia - British American Racing
British American Racing is a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005. BAR began by acquiring Tyrrell, and by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American Tobacco: Encyclopedia - British American Tobacco
British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS) is the second largest cigarette company in the world. It is based in London and is a constituent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia - Canadian English
Canadian English is the form of English language used in Canada, spoken as a first or second language by over 25 million – or 85 percen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Affixes
American and British English pronunciation differences - -ary -ery -ory -bury -berry -mony. Where the syllable preceding -ary,-ery or -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commonwealth English: Encyclopedia - Commonwealth English
"Commonwealth English" is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Spelling Differences - Greek-derived Spellings
American and British English spelling differences - -ise / -ize. American spelling accepts only colonize, harmonize, and realize. These...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biscuit: Encyclopedia Ii - Biscuit - British English Meaning
In British English, Australian English and New Zealand English, a biscuit is a hard baked product which in North America may be called a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British English: Encyclopedia Ii - British English - -ise Versus -ize
Words of the sort organize/organise and their derivatives can be spelt with either s or z in British English. The -ize forms are promoted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - General Features
The British Isles is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the English-speaking world. Significant changes in dialect (pronunci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Americanism General: Encyclopedia Ii - Americanism General - Explanation
Languages are not static. They evolve to meet new situations and, when one group devises a new word, others may borrow it. Hence, English...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Words Having Different Meanings In British And American English/rewrite: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Words Having Different Meanings In British And American English/rewrite - R
a sequence or scale between limits a place where shooting is practised an area over which a species of animal or plant is found waterproo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Phonology
In many ways, compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. The conservatism of American English is lar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biscuit: Encyclopedia Ii - Biscuit - American English Meaning
In American English, however, "biscuit" means a form of bread similar to a roll made with baking powder or baking soda as a rising agent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Regional Differences
Main article: American English regional differences Spoken American English is not homogeneous throughout the country, and various region...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Northern England
English English - General features. There are several accent features which are common to most of the accents of northern England. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Midlands
English English - West Midlands. The best known accents in the West Midlands area are the Birmingham accents (see "Brummie") and the B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Differences In Formal Written English: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Differences In Formal Written English - Lists Of Variations In Formal Written English
What follows is a list of expressions and constructions that appear in formal written English and are given different meanings in differe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Spelling Differences - Latin-derived Spellings
American and British English spelling differences - -our / -or. Many words ending in -or in American English have an additional vowel, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Southern England
In general, Southern English accents are distinguished from Northern English accents primarily by the use of broad A (that is, words like...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Radio And Tv Featuring Regional English Accents
Misrepresentations can also appear in the media. The soap "Emmerdale" is set in Yorkshire, yet some of the actors have Lancashire accents...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Weak Forms
Some function words have a weak form in AmE, with a reduced vowel used when the word is unstressed, but always use the full vowel in RP. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - English Words Obsolete Outside The U.s.
A number of words that originated in the English of the British Isles are still in everyday use in North America, but are no longer used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - General American English
Written English is standardized across the U.S., and in schools abroad specializing in American English, although it differs slightly fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Zealand English: Encyclopedia Ii - New Zealand English - Differences From British English
New Zealand English - Flattened 'i'. The most noticeable difference in pronunciation is probably the flat "i", so that "six" is pronoun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - South
Main article: Southern American English monophthongization of [aɪ] as [aː], for example, most dialects' "I" → "Ah" in the South. Coa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Mid-atlantic Region
American English regional differences - Northeastern Pennsylvania. The dialect of the Wyoming Valley (including Scranton and Wilkes-Bar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Inland North
A distinctive speech pattern was also generated by the separation of Canada from the United States, centered on the Great Lakes region. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Eastern New England
The accents of eastern New England, including those of Boston (see Boston accent), New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine (also called Do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - The Midland
West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the broad zone of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two discrete s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Midwest
American English regional differences - North Central American English. (Minnesota (esp. rural), Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern". Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern." Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian English - Influences: British And American
The form of English that Indians (and other subcontinentals) are taught in schools is essentially British English, especially Scottish En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Zealand English: Encyclopedia Ii - New Zealand English - Differences From Australian English
Although foreigners can find it hard to distinguish the New Zealand dialect from the Australian, there are differences in the pronunciati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malaysian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Malaysian English - Different Meanings
This is a list of words and phrases that have one meaning in British English and another in Malaysian English Most Malaysians are adept a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonograph: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonograph - British And American And Australian Language Usage Differences
In British English "gramophone" came to refer to any sound reproducing machine using disc records, as disc records were popularized in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malaysian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Malaysian English - Malaysian English And British English
In the first half of the 20th century, Malaysian English was exactly similar to British English (BrE) (albeit spoken with a Malaysian acc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - New York City And Northern New Jersey
Main article: New York-New Jersey English As in Eastern New England, the accents of New York City and northern New Jersey are traditional...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The English Language - Early Modern English
From the late 15th century, the language changed further into what is described as Modern English; the change is often dated from the Gre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American: Encyclopedia Ii - British American - Number Of British Americans
In the 2000 Census, 36.4 million Americans reported British ancestry. These include: 24.5 million English 4.9 million Scottish 4.3 milli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American: Encyclopedia Ii - British American - British American Or American?
Many British Americans have ancestry in America that dates back to colonial times in the 17th and 18th centuries. With their roots being ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commonwealth English: Encyclopedia Ii - Commonwealth English - Internal Spelling Differences
Within British English and its Commonwealth variants there is disagreement as to proper spelling of words such as organise / organize. Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The English Language - Old English
The invaders dominated the original Celtic-speaking inhabitants, whose languages survived largely in Scotland, Wales, and Cornwall. The d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicism: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicism - Britishisms Americanisms And Other -isms
A Britishism is an expression peculiar to British English, from an outsider's point-of-view. The term "Britishism" is an Americanism. An ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally follows the borders of the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally includes the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Vocabularies Of American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Vocabularies Of American English - Regional Vocabulary Tables
See: Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - History And Social Context
AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but also has features of English spoken in the Britis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Colonization Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - English Colonization Of The Americas - British North America
The English established colonies along the east coast of North America, from Newfoundland in the north, to as far as Florida in the south...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature Since 1900
The major lyric poet of the first decades of the 20th century was Thomas Hardy, who concentrated on poetry after the harsh response to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - Bad-lad Split
The bad-lad split is a phonemic split of the Early Modern English short vowel phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/. This spli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian And American Politics Compared: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian And American Politics Compared - Origin Of Differences
There are a number of explanations for why Canadian and American politics are different: Canadian and American politics compared - Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - British American Tobacco - History
Established in 1902, when the United Kingdom's Imperial Tobacco Company and the American Tobacco Company of the USA agreed to form a join...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Colonization Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - English Colonization Of The Americas - British North America
The Kingdom of Great Britain acquired the French colony of New France and the Spanish colony of Florida in 1763. New France became the Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - Grammatical Features
African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [ɑ�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Accents Of English Speakers: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Accents Of English Speakers - British Isles
Main article: British English English accents and dialects vary more widely within the UK itself than they do in other parts of the world...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Vocabulary
Where Canadian English shares vocabulary with other English dialects, it tends to share most with American English. For instance, automot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Zealand English: Encyclopedia Ii - New Zealand English - Spelling
Where there is a distinct difference between British and US spelling (such as words like colour/color and travelled/traveled), the Britis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - Grammatical Features
African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [aɪ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Non-u.s. English
Sometimes International English is used to refer to a general standard that is based on Commonwealth and British English, rather than U.S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English-speaking Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - English-speaking Europe - English Outside The British Isles
English-speaking Europe - Gibraltar. Although originally a fortified Moorish settlement, the town of Gibraltar had been in Spanish hand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eh: Encyclopedia Ii - Eh - Usage In Different English Speaking Countries
Eh - Canada. According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary the only usage of eh that is peculiar to Canada is for "ascertaining the compr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metrified English Unit: Encyclopedia Ii - Metrified English Unit - American Independence
[1] At the First Congress, which met in 1789 when the metric system had not yet been developed in France, the system of units to be used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Native Americans In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Native Americans In The United States - Terminology Differences
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the "New World", he described the people he encountered as Indians because he mistakenly believed th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Native Americans In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Native Americans In The United States - Terminology Differences
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the "New World", he described the people he encountered as Indians because he mistakenly believed th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British American Tobacco: Encyclopedia Ii - British American Tobacco - Brands
International Brands include Dunhill, Kent, State Express 555, Rothmans, Peter Stuyvesant, Benson & Hedges, Winfield, John Player Luc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - History And Social Context
AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but it also has features of English spoken in Great B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - æ-tensing
In the sociolinguistics of English, æ-tensing is a process that occurs in some accents of North American English by which the vowel [æ]...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese American: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese American - Different Chinese American Identities
The Chinese American identities in the United States are quite varied. There are two main aspects to that identity: ethnicity and culture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - British Empire - Background: The English And Scottish Empires
British Empire - The Anglo-Norman Kingdom. In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy,(also known as Bastard because he was the products of a a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Empire: Encyclopedia Ii - British Empire - Background: The English And Scottish Empires
British Empire - The Anglo-Norman Kingdom. In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, (also known as William the Bastard because he was the pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - College: Encyclopedia Ii - College - British And American Usage Contrasted
The most confusing aspect of the conflict between the British and American terminology arises from the colloquial use of the word "colleg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Old English Literature
Main Article: Anglo-Saxon literature The earliest form of the English language developed after the settlement of the Saxons and other Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Middle English Creole Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle English Creole Hypothesis - Differences Between Middle And Old English
The argument in favour of calling Middle English a pidgin comes from the extreme reduction in inflected forms from Old English to Middle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian English - An Indian English Grammar
Standard English in India is prized and found plentifully in educated circles and higher Indian writing in English. Middle and upper-clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Pronunciation
The primary aspect of the Canadian English accent is a feature called "Canadian raising", where diphthongs are raised before voiceless co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of English Words Of Chinese Origin: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of English Words Of Chinese Origin - Different Sources Of Loanwords
English words with Chinese origin usually have different characteristics depending how the words were spread to the West. Some words spre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Early Modern English Literature To 1660
The sonnet form and other Italian literary influences arrived in English literature. The sonnet was introduced into English by Thomas Wya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Varying Concepts
International English - Universality and flexibility. International English sometimes refers to English as it is actually being used an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Spelling
Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American rules. Most notably, French-derived words that in American Englis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Zealand English: Encyclopedia Ii - New Zealand English - Dictionaries Of New Zealand English
The first comprehensive dictionary dedicated to the species of English spoken in New Zealand was probably the Heinemann New Zealand dicti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - 19th Century English Language Literature
British literature - The Romantics. Major political and social changes at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly the French Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - Trap-bath Split
The trap-bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Zealand English: Encyclopedia Ii - New Zealand English - Unique New Zealand English Vocabulary
There are also many non-Māori words that are unique to New Zealand English. The following are shared with Australia: arvo – afternoon...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stop Sign: Encyclopedia Ii - Stop Sign - Different Non-english Variants
Although English-speaking and European Union countries use the original word "STOP" on stop signs, most countries, and sometimes even sma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comparison Of Canadian And American Football: Encyclopedia Ii - Comparison Of Canadian And American Football - Important Differences
There are several important specific differences between the Canadian and American versions of the game of football: Comparison of Canad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grammatical Particle: Encyclopedia Ii - Grammatical Particle - Different Types Of Particles In English
Grammatical particle - Articles infinitival prepositional and adverbial particles. The definite article the (the indefinite article a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Castle In The Sky: Encyclopedia Ii - Castle In The Sky - Differences Between English And Japanese Versions
Although the plot and much of the script was left intact, Disney's English dub of Castle in the Sky contains some changes. Examples of t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language: Encyclopedia - The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by Boston publisher Houghton...   » Read the article