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- Like a [[full-stop]] ([[British English]], known as a period in [[American English]]), a colon can follow a grammatically complete utterance. The same is true3 KB (426 words) - 12:01, 30 July 2024
- ...'God'' (= '''nòne''' ''negative''). The sound is a stressed [[schwa]] in [[American English]], [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [ʌ] in standard [[British Engli9 KB (1,523 words) - 17:07, 15 February 2016
- * {{search link|"killometer"|killometer|ns0|ns14|ns100}} is [[American English]]6 KB (780 words) - 01:09, 16 February 2010
- '''ÛS''' ''America'' *yû-wéss, cf. '''ús''' ''we''; [[American English|American]] usage insists on 'U.S.', which avoids confusion with 'us' in upp4 KB (699 words) - 15:49, 1 April 2017
- <nowiki>*</nowiki>Toô-nìzhə [[American English|AmE]]; [[British English|BrE]] Chû-nízìə '''Tunisia'''6 KB (884 words) - 13:10, 13 May 2017
- The '''metre''' (American English: '''meter''') of a poem is the basic, recurring pattern of some ''countable11 KB (1,772 words) - 12:01, 18 September 2024
- '''vîse''' ''grip'': [[American English|American]] alternative spelling of '''vîce''' in this sense only4 KB (606 words) - 05:29, 20 July 2017
- ...reland (state)|Ireland]], and maizemeal in [[East Africa]]. Speakers of [[American English]] understand the word ''porridge'' but generally do not employ it, referrin2 KB (356 words) - 07:58, 16 October 2010
- {{rpl|British and American English}}4 KB (530 words) - 13:46, 27 March 2023
- ...d individuals' behavior. Thus the etymological clarification and reform of American English promised to improve citizens' manners and thereby preserve republican purit ...spelling rules were unnecessarily complex, so his dictionary introduced [[American English]] spellings like "color" instead of "colour," "wagon" instead of "waggon,"16 KB (2,443 words) - 12:00, 26 September 2024
- ...[obama], with short [[vowel]]s; cf. Barack Obama's surname, [oʊbɑ:mə] in [[American English]].</ref> (小浜市 ''Obama-shi''<ref>Literally 'little beach'.</ref>) is a3 KB (399 words) - 17:00, 27 September 2024
- {{r|British and American English}}2 KB (308 words) - 12:01, 18 July 2024
- ...ish English referred to as just '''Solitaire''', while the latter term, in American English, refers to the type of card game known in British English as [[Patience]])7 KB (1,310 words) - 04:48, 17 March 2020
- ...c [[U.S. Senate|Senator]]" or "Senator Kerry is a Democrat," is standard [[American English|American]] usage, while "Kerry is a Democrat Senator" is controversial.14 KB (2,084 words) - 07:00, 6 August 2024
- ...|title=Word frequency lists and dictionary from the Corpus of Contemporary American English}}, {{cite web |url=http://subtlexus.lexique.org/ |title=SubtlexUS: American9 KB (1,374 words) - 17:00, 19 September 2024
- But where -'''n't''' follows a vowel sound (or a vowel-drenched '''r''' in [[American English|AmE]]), there is no new syllable: '''cān't, shān't, àren't, wëren't, d�9 KB (1,513 words) - 17:00, 11 July 2024
- ''[[British English|BrE]]'' '''môuld''' = ''[[American English|AmE]]'' '''môld ''[[American English|American]]'' '''môld''' = ''[[British English|British]]'' '''môuld11 KB (1,732 words) - 19:33, 6 July 2017
- BrE '''cátalógue''': see [[British and American English]] for more examples: AmE '''cátalog4 KB (603 words) - 12:54, 22 April 2017
- A '''[[Wrench (tool)|wrench]]''' ([[American English]]), or '''spanner''' ([[British English]]), is a [[fastening tool]] used to9 KB (1,487 words) - 02:17, 25 October 2013
- A number of verbs that are irregular in [[British English]] are regular in [[American English]], such as '''spéll''': both past forms are '''spélt''' in BrE, but the r |dîved ([[American English|AmE]] also has dôve, cf. dòve ''bird'')13 KB (2,517 words) - 12:00, 12 August 2024