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Longman Dictionary of American English 95,000 words, phrases and meanings. The latest edition of this best-selling dictionary helps intermediate students improve their writing with the new Collocations feature and offers extra support for those studying other subjects in English. American English definition is - the English language as spoken in the U.S. —used especially with the implication that it is clearly distinguishable from British English yet not so divergent as to be a separate language.
motorway being equivalent to freeway or interstate. Note that 'freeway' is a Western (mostly California) term, which sounds as foreign to a Floridian as does motorway.American English Dictionary online, free
top up vs. fill up -- we do 'top off' our gas (petrol) tanks, after filling up, i.e., after the pump valve clicks off, one 'tops off' the tank to the nearest 5 or 10 cents.
bill vs. check (in a restaurant) -- in the Southeast, we tend to say 'bill' Template design for keynote 1 7.
While we do call a dollar a 'bill' rather than a 'note', all U.S. currency has the words 'Federal Reserve Note' printed on it.
If one borrows money from a bank, one 'takes out a note.'
Apple video to android. How does a barrister differ from a solicitor? They're all lawyers here.
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Call of duty world at war lan fix. I've never got (sic!) very clear on how our usage of 'post' vs. 'mail' compares, but we seem to reverse meanings in at least some cases.
In the U.S., a mailman or mail carrier carries the mail, while working forthe Post Office. He is a 'postal worker.' He puts the 'mail' in one's mail box. The large receptacles outside the post office or on a street corner, where one mails a letter, are called drop boxes.
You listed tea towel vs. dish cloth and dish towel. That's also a regional thing. In Pennsylvania, where my family is (not 'are') from, one washes dishes with a dish cloth, then dries them with a tea towel.In Florida, we wash with a dish rag and dry with a dish towel. I don'tknow of a site in the US where dishes are dried with a dish cloth.
Have you read 'The Mother Tongue -- English and How it Got that Way', by Bill Bryson? I think it was originally published in Britain. It's a fascinating look at exactly this subject. Another favorite (without the 'u') book is 'Brit Think -- Ameri-Think'. It also has sections on difference in language, 'correct' vs. 'horrible' things to name a child (one will meet many boys named 'Randy' in the U.S., but never a Crinan and seldom a Malcolm. It also looks at ournational psyche -- what makes us 'tick.' It is quite insulting to both sides, but an embarrassing lot of truth among the insults.
I thought of another area of differing speech: our use of prepositions and articles with certain nouns. I believe you are 'at' school or university, are you not? We are 'in' school or 'in' or 'at' THE university.
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mass noun- The English language as spoken and written in the US.‘This derives from Beijing Mandarin and is about as similar to that dialect as American English is to British English.’
- ‘When we do read in translation, we are normally reading books translated into standard British English or standard American English.’
- ‘The differences in words and meanings of words between British English and American English are a constant source of interest and amusement to me.’
- ‘On that first day I asked if any of the kids spoke or read or understood languages other than American English.’
- ‘Webster wanted to distinguish American English from British English by correcting irregular spellings and eliminating silent letters.’
- ‘If the English exams concentrated more on American English than on British English, she says, her students would do better.’
- ‘‘They tend to use the Queen's English rather than American English,’ she says.’
- ‘It does feel strange having people arguing about the effect of English on American English.’
- ‘I've been writing in American English so long that I have to stop and think about my audience whenever I write 'tap' or 'carpark' or 'jersey' or 'colour'.’
- ‘Twelve business telephone conversations were analyzed in order to detect intercultural differences between speakers of Finnish and speakers of American English.’
- ‘Today Continental European languages are borrowing words from American English.’
- ‘The researchers added that the finding held true regardless of whether the language spoken tends to emphasize nouns, as does American English, or verbs, as does Korean.’
- ‘If you don't know those words, you will have difficulty being understood in American English.’
- ‘Bulgarians in the United States have likewise incorporated many American English words into their daily speech.’
- ‘The speech recognition system was created using the voices of 700 different native-level American English speakers in the U.S.’
- ‘This may be because these students are not native speakers of American English or do not reside in the United States.’
- ‘So when you actually look at the future of the language, then I think we will gradually see a lessening of the influence of American English and an evening out of other forms of English.’
- ‘Stone was originally the son of a Marine stationed in Japan, and learned the language as a toddler, in addition to American English.’
- ‘Australian English is different from British and American English but does not vary much regionally.’
- ‘It is often said, usually by Americans, that the spoken English of Shakespeare's day was closer in sound to present-day American English than it was to current British ‘received pronunciation’.’
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As well as differences from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, there are specifically American uses of words and meanings, principally: adoptions from languages with which the early settlers came in contact (moccasin, prairie), changes in meaning (corn, vest), survivals of 17th- and 18th-century English (gotten), and different words for the same referent (elevator for lift)
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