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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 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 - 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 - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies: Encyclopedia - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies
This spelling pronunciation system is used on the planetoids and moons of the solar system pages. It's based on classical mythology gloss...   » 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 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Philippine English: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine English - Pronunciation
Educated Philippine English tends to follow American rather than British pronunciation. English is often the language of choice for readi...   » 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 - 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 - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Acquisition Problems
Children generally learn the less marked phonemes of their native language before the more marked ones. In the case of English-speaking c...   » 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 - South African English: Encyclopedia Ii - South African English - Pronunciation
South African English spoken by whites bears some resemblances in pronunciation to a mix of Australian English and British English. Afri...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Realisation In Non-standard Englishes
In some areas such as London, many people realize the phonemes /θ/ and /ð/ as [f] and [v] respectively (th-fronting). Although stigmati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Non-native Pronunciations Of English: Encyclopedia Ii - Non-native Pronunciations Of English - The Indian Subcontinent
Note: There are many different languages and language families in India such as Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Distribution In Old English
In Germanic, /ð/ and /θ/ were separate phonemes; in Old English the original /ð/ became /d/, but a new [ð] appeared as an allophone o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Regional Variation In Pronunciation
Canadian English - Toronto. The English spoken in Toronto is closely related to the midwestern American accent, but with a more literal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Development Up To Modern English
A number of developments have occurred since Old English, with the result that the distinction has once again become phonemic: In early ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Distribution In Modern English
The vast majority of words in English with 'th' in them have the voiceless sound, and almost all newly created words follow this. Excepti...   » 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 - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - Phonetic Realisation
In standard English, both in Britain and America, the phonetic realisation of these phonemes shows less variation than for many other Eng...   » 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 - Pronunciation Of English Th: Encyclopedia Ii - Pronunciation Of English Th - A Note On The Spelling
Though English speakers take it for granted, the digraph <th> is in fact not an obvious combination for a dental fricative. The ori...   » 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: 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 - 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 - Pittsburgh English: Encyclopedia Ii - Pittsburgh English - Pronunciation
Further information can be found in chapter 19 of Labov et al. (2006). For information on IPA symbols used, see International Phonetic Al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies: Encyclopedia Ii - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies - English Pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies
This spelling pronunciation system is used on the planetoids and moons of the solar system pages. It's based on classical mythology gloss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - English Phonology - The History Of English Pronunciation
See also History of the English language Around the late 14th century, English began to undergo the Great Vowel Shift, in which the high...   » 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 - 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 - Middle English: Encyclopedia Ii - Middle English - Pronunciation
Generally, all letters in Middle English words are pronounced. (Silent letters in Modern English come from pronunciation shifts but cont...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - Received Pronunciation: Encyclopedia Ii - Received Pronunciation - Changing Status Of Received Pronunciation
Traditionally, Received Pronunciation is the accent of English which is the everyday speech of families of Southern English persons whose...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Rules Given In Terms Of English Pronunciation
All rules given here in terms of English pronunciation are approximate. Pinyin - Pronunciation of initials. Pinyin - Pronunciation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Rules Given In Terms Of English Pronunciation
All rules given here in terms of English pronunciation are approximate. Pinyin - Pronunciation of initials. Pinyin - Pronunciation of ...   » 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 - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies: Encyclopedia Ii - Spelling-pronunciation Key For Astronomical Bodies - How To Pronounce Classical Greek Names In English
Placement of Greco-Latin stress Names from Greek mythology are relatively straightforward to pronounce once you know where the stress is....   » 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 - Lieutenant: Encyclopedia Ii - Lieutenant - Pronunciation
In English the word is pronounced lef-TEN-ant, except in American English in which it is loo-TEN-ant. However, the Royal Navy and other C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Received Pronunciation: Encyclopedia Ii - Received Pronunciation - Phonology
Received Pronunciation - Consonants. A table containing the consonant phonemes is given below The phoneme /ʍ/ is present in the speech...   » 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 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 - Mispronunciation: Encyclopedia Ii - Mispronunciation - Standards Of Pronunciation
All speakers must adhere to some standard of pronunciation in order to be understood by others. But standards vary among groups, and the ...   » 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 - Grammatical Features
African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [aɪ...   » 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 - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation - Pronunciation In English
The romanized words are normally pronounced in a somewhat anglicized way, with the following characteristics which are different than wha...   » 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 - Spelling Pronunciation: Encyclopedia Ii - Spelling Pronunciation - Spelling Pronunciation Vs. Analogical Pronunciation
In some cases, we cannot tell if a pronunciation is a true spelling pronunciation. The alternative is that a word is being pronounced ana...   » 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 - 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 - English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - English Language - Sounds
English language - Vowels. Notes: It is the vowels that differ most from region to region. Where symbols appear in pairs, the first cor...   » 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 - Chinglish: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinglish - Pronunciation
For example, the word "temple" and "temper" may be confused, as both would be pronounced similarly to "Tem-po" or "Tem-pah". Note that th...   » 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 - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Pronunciation
The primary purpose of pinyin in Chinese schools is to teach Mandarin pronunciation. Many in the West are under the mistaken belief that ...   » 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 - South African English: Encyclopedia Ii - South African English - Vocabulary
There are words that do not exist in British or American English, usually derived from Afrikaans or African languages. Terms in common wi...   » 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 - 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 - 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 - Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Dictionary - Pronunciation
Dictionaries have had a variety of means of expressing the means of pronouncing words in those languages that are not entirely phonetic. ...   » 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 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