This paper is a survey on British and American dialects. It discribes the differences between different English dialects. Key-Words: dialects, accent, variety, sociolects; Received Pronunciation. Download Free PDF.
‘American and British English: Divided by a Common Language provides a comprehensive, well-illustrated, and interesting description of how American and British English have changed from the 1930s through the 2000s, focusing on such topics as spelling differences, word frequency variations between the varieties, and the use of profanity andThis American and British English lesson will teach you the top 10 differences between food vocabulary in the UK and the USA.Claim your FREE audiobook here: 1 Pronunciation Differences between British English and American English. One of the main difficulties a foreigner student may face when learning English pronunciation is the remarkable variety of accents. Like many other languages spoken in such a vast territory and by so many people, spoken English presents wide variation in pronunciation. The “broad a,” /ɑ/, of standard British English, rather than /æ/, in words like bath and cant, attained widespread usage only in eastern New England, with much more limited and sporadic use farther south. It is not impossible that some of these features shared by American and British English are of independent origin. In the sociolinguistics of English, /æ/ tensing is a process that occurs in many accents of American English, and to some degree in Canadian English, by which /æ/, the "short a" vowel found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc., is tensed: pronounced as more raised, and lengthened and/or diphthongized in various The letter Y has two different pronunciations in Spanish. In Spain and most Latin American countries, it has a “yod” pronunciation. This means that it has the same sound value as English Y: it’s a /j/ sound. In countries like Argentina and Uruguay, however, it has a /sh/ sound: playa (beach): /plasha/. LlUS0.