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...g differences are insignificant compared with those of British English and American English.

The other long sound, '''à''', is heard in both British and American English before '''r''': '''pàrt, fàrm, yàrd, vàrnish, tàrt, gàrden, màrk''' ...the great majority of words standard British English '''à''' is '''á''' in American English and some varieties of British and Commonwealth English (and long in America

cf. '''paréntheses''': whether between parentheses ([[American English|AmE]]; [[British English|BrE]] brackets), square brackets (BrE; AmE bracket

mostly schwa; stressed -'''ër''' in some words; [[British and American English|some AmE -'''er''' words are -'''re''' in BrE]]: -'''er ...rE]]: ''entertainment'' '''prémiére''', ''minister'' '''prémier'''; both [[American English|AmE]]: '''premíere''' = '''premíer

The sound is a stressed [[schwa]] in [[American English]] ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [ə]), and [ʌ] in [[British Eng [[schwa]], (though for [[American English|AmE]] speakers, these can also be '''ô'''): '''bòrough''' (*búrə), '''t

...pronunciation that constitute recognised differences between [[British and American English]], a notable example being the suffix -'''ary''', as in '''díctionary''', Sometimes '''Dâvies''' can be heard with this pronunciation (often in American English), instead of being homophonous with '''Dâvis'''. The tendency has been sl

! [[American English|English, US]]

...imes referred to as a '''vapor'''<ref>American spelling: the [[British and American English|British variant]] is '''vapour'''</ref>) is one of the four major [[Physics

...aker is intending to speak standard American English. Speakers of standard American English ''do'' follow subject-verb agreement, and thus if the intention is to teach

...ed = '''fŏur''' ''4'', '''fŏre''' ''front''; this pronunciation is used in American English for British '''fór'''-

...ter" and "liter" instead of "metre" and "litre" in keeping with standard [[American English]] spelling, which also corresponds to the official spelling used in several

'''Public''' ([[American English|AmE]]: /ˈpəblɪk/; [[British English|BrE]]: /ˈpʌblɪk/) is an important

'''râbid''' ([[American English|AmE]] can be '''á''') '''résumè''' ''[[American English|AmE]] CV'': may be written '''''résumé''''' or '''''resumé''''' to disti

'''néver mînd''' ''disregarding'' can be one word in American English (e.g. [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s album, ''[[Nevermind]]'', cf. British En

...; for [[schwa]]); or we can contrast [[British English]] *dizàstrus with [[American English|American]] *dizástrus. ...ealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] (see also [[Commonwealth English]]), and [[American English]] (AmE), that of the [[United States of America|USA]] and [[Canada]] (witho

'''môld''' ''[[American English]]'' = '''môuld''' ''[[British English]] '''môuld''' ''[[British English]]'' = '''môld''' ''[[American English]]''

...more. [[Grammar|Grammatical]] and lexical differences between British and American English are, for the most part, common to all dialects, but there are many regional ...e' a matter, as in a conference, is generally taken to mean 'to defer', in American English, but as 'to place on the table', i.e. to bring up for discussion, in Common

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'''Làs Vègas''': [[British English|BrE]] usually *Lós Vègas because in [[American English|AmE]] '''Làs''' = '''Lós''', and/or by analogy with '''Lós Ángeles''';

'''ónto''' *óntû, weak form *óntə, now British as well as American English<ref>Chambers 12th ed. p. 1075, '''on'''.</ref>