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British English and American English - Coggle Diagram
British English and American English
vocabulary
British
Rubbish
Flat
Underground
American
garbage
Apartment
Subway
Accent
American
R-sound (Rhotic) "R" sounds are always clearly pronounced
British
Is not rhotic, the "R" sound is not pronounced unless it is followed by a vowel sound
The intrusive R
people sometimes add an "R-sound" to a word that doesn't actually have one, if is followed by a vowel
Grammar
British
are also more likely to use formal speech, such as ‘shall’, whereas Americans favour the more informal ‘will’ or ‘should’.
American
continue to use ‘gotten’ as the past participle of ‘get’, which the British have long since dropped in favour of ‘got’.
Spelling
British
-oe/ae-(anaemia)
-t (burnt)
-ell- (cancelled)
American
-e- (anemia)
-ed (burned)
-el- (canceled)