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- '''American English''' refers to the [[dialect]]s of the [[English language]] spoken in the [[U One reason that 'American English' might be associated with standard written language is that one of the most3 KB (451 words) - 11:43, 20 April 2014
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- {{r|British and American English}} *[[British and American English]]461 bytes (59 words) - 10:42, 15 February 2011
- ...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 Common61 KB (9,656 words) - 09:17, 2 March 2024
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- | title = British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns | title = Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English464 bytes (57 words) - 23:10, 5 November 2009
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- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/British and American English]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|American English}}800 bytes (104 words) - 14:49, 22 April 2023
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- {{r|British and American English}} *[[British and American English]]461 bytes (59 words) - 10:42, 15 February 2011
- {{r|British and American English}}485 bytes (63 words) - 14:37, 14 September 2011
- {{r|American English}}696 bytes (85 words) - 11:24, 9 January 2011
- ...ral model - in contrast to [[Canada]], whose English has similarities to [[American English|American]] (sharing much of its [[General American|characteristic pronuncia1 KB (179 words) - 12:15, 14 February 2024
- {{r|American English}} {{r|British and American English}}695 bytes (92 words) - 15:34, 11 January 2010
- {{r|American English}} {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (168 words) - 11:31, 11 January 2010
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- '''American English''' refers to the [[dialect]]s of the [[English language]] spoken in the [[U One reason that 'American English' might be associated with standard written language is that one of the most3 KB (451 words) - 11:43, 20 April 2014
- {{r|American English}} {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (185 words) - 16:19, 11 January 2010
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/British and American English]]. Needs checking by a human. {{r|American English}}800 bytes (104 words) - 14:49, 22 April 2023
- {{r|American English}}654 bytes (78 words) - 16:40, 9 April 2010
- #REDIRECT [[British and American English]]42 bytes (5 words) - 03:14, 22 July 2009
- | title = British or American English?: A Handbook of Word and Grammar Patterns | title = Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English464 bytes (57 words) - 23:10, 5 November 2009
- {{r|American English}}217 bytes (27 words) - 10:04, 30 May 2009
- {{r|American English}} {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (158 words) - 08:55, 3 August 2011
- ...nadians. A further complication is the similarity of Canadian English to [[American English]]. ...the /t/ in ''city'' as a 'flap' (brief contact) that would be natural in American English: [sɪɾɪ] not [sɪtɪ]. Canadian [[vowel]]s are often quite different from4 KB (564 words) - 00:32, 21 October 2013
- {{r|American English}} {{r|British and American English}}2 KB (201 words) - 13:52, 9 March 2015
- The name in American English for ''Solanum melongena'', a perennial cultivated for its edible fruits.137 bytes (18 words) - 16:53, 31 May 2008
- {{r|American English}}557 bytes (72 words) - 11:37, 11 January 2010
- '''Potato crisps''' (in [[British English]], called '''potato chips''' in [[American English|American]]) are a dry snack food of extremely thin slices of [[potato]] tha1 KB (166 words) - 13:47, 4 June 2009
- {{r|American English}}330 bytes (43 words) - 13:18, 2 February 2023
- {{r|American English}}763 bytes (95 words) - 14:01, 9 March 2015
- {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (176 words) - 17:30, 11 January 2010
- {{r|British and American English}}959 bytes (133 words) - 17:41, 31 January 2013
- {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (172 words) - 20:32, 11 January 2010
- ...economic]] and [[military]] power of the USA has spread the influence of [[American English]] far beyond U.S. borders. *[[American English]]3 KB (469 words) - 09:19, 2 March 2024
- {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (172 words) - 16:19, 11 January 2010
- {{r|American English}}332 bytes (40 words) - 05:11, 31 May 2009
- ...nd freight transportations. As opposed to what are called [[railroad]]s in American English, they have stayed active and efficient, and indeed often serve what would b303 bytes (47 words) - 12:15, 1 June 2009
- In [[American English]], a '''doghouse''' is a small shed, often built in the shape of a little h725 bytes (122 words) - 02:29, 16 October 2007
- {{r|British and American English}}3 KB (354 words) - 16:41, 11 January 2010
- ...d brings into its discourse a range of concerns, including the politics of American English, the question of national identity and culture in the early moments of Amer * Gallardo, Andres. "The Standardization of American English." PhD dissertation State U. of New York, Buffalo 1980. 367 pp. DAI 1981 44 KB (585 words) - 15:37, 10 August 2011
- ...sence of <nowiki><u></nowiki> in words such as ''colour'' in [[British and American English]]. Some languages, such as [[Japanese language|Japanese]], use more than on2 KB (341 words) - 23:44, 5 June 2009
- American English: '''Thôugh Î thínk ít's bêíng thŏught'''/'''thóught throûgh thör�4 KB (585 words) - 22:40, 8 June 2016
- ...lish is its [[orthography|spelling]] conventions: ''colour'' rather than [[American English]] ''color'', for example. These so-called 'British' spellings are however c *[[British and American English]]7 KB (989 words) - 09:19, 2 March 2024
- ...ge|English]], including differing standards such as [[British English]], [[American English]], [[Australian English]]...2 KB (250 words) - 07:35, 5 August 2011
- ...nalysis of the [[Brown Corpus]], a carefully compiled selection of current American English, totalling about a million words drawn from a wide variety of sources. Kuce ...land English), ACE (Australian English), the [[Frown Corpus]] (early 1990s American English), and the [[FLOB Corpus]] (1990s British English).5 KB (677 words) - 07:31, 26 September 2007
- * Brengelman, Fred H. (1970). Sounds and letters in American English. In ''The English language: An introduction for teachers'' (pp. 77–9 * Cummings, D. W. (1988). ''American English spelling: An informal description''. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University5 KB (618 words) - 22:09, 18 March 2010
- ...s English name is pronounced [ˈzed] in [[British English]] and [ˈziː] in [[American English|American]], and these are sometimes spelt ''zed'' and ''zee''.4 KB (700 words) - 15:40, 4 April 2017
- ...ram''' ([[British English]], ''tramway''; also known as ''streetcar'' in [[American English]]) is a rail vehicle for use in urban areas. Trams are almost exclusively u1 KB (171 words) - 02:25, 19 March 2010
- ...northern [[sky]]. Its brightest stars are also known as the Big Dipper (in American English) and the Plough (in British English). Constellations Ursa Major (the "Big D1 KB (173 words) - 05:08, 14 June 2022
- ...sh English]] terminology; slashes: /'slæʃɪz/ and brackets: ['brækɪts] in [[American English]].</ref> The former are used for [[phoneme|phonemic]] transcription, the la ...d as is the 'a' in 'father', or in [[British English]] 'fast', or 'o' in [[American English]] 'not'4 KB (728 words) - 19:44, 25 November 2009
- ...hown here as '''qùa'''-): '''qùantity, qùarrel, qùality, eqùality''' (in [[American English]], these are just '''quà'''-.). And, also as after '''w''', it can go eve ...e''' sounds like -k: BrE '''chéque''' ''money'' (= '''chéck''' ''verify, [[American English|AmE]] money'' = '''Czéch''' ''nationality''), '''unìque, bezìque, oblìq4 KB (583 words) - 19:17, 14 May 2016
- '''Eggplant''' is the name in American English for ''[[Solanum]] melongena'', a perennial cultivated for its edible [[frui1 KB (179 words) - 12:15, 11 June 2009
- {{r|British and American English}}468 bytes (61 words) - 17:49, 11 January 2010
- ...knote''' (informally '''note''' in [[British English]] and '''bill''' in [[American English]]; also called '''paper money''') is a written assurance of payment to the1 KB (191 words) - 15:23, 28 August 2013
- {{r|British and American English}}852 bytes (110 words) - 15:57, 11 January 2010
- {{r|British and American English}}2 KB (235 words) - 14:21, 8 March 2024
- ...rnational Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry</ref>) or '''aluminium''' ([[American English]]) is a [[Chemical elements|chemical element]], having the [[chemical symb1 KB (207 words) - 08:34, 6 March 2024
- ...nouns semantically refer to a group, but can be grammatically singular. [[American English]] prefers collective nouns to be singular unless there is more than one gro5 KB (891 words) - 00:37, 8 November 2010
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- ...glish-language [[newspaper]]s, this variety is typically very similar to [[American English]] in [[vocabulary]], [[grammar]] and [[spelling]]. However, there are a num ...here these occur between vowels and in an unstressed [[syllable]] of North American English, e.g. ''city'' or ''butter''. This sound is known to phoneticians as a [[fl9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:35, 15 February 2010
- {{r|British and American English}}1 KB (150 words) - 10:26, 8 April 2023
- ...tish English, but may be called "Metro" in many languages, and "subway" in American English.2 KB (236 words) - 17:42, 10 October 2010
- A '''theatre''' (spelt '''theater''' in [[American English|US English]]) is a structure in which [[theatre|theatrical]] or dramatic wo *[[Cinema]] (American English "movie theater")4 KB (557 words) - 01:12, 21 May 2021
- {{r|British and American English}}3 KB (337 words) - 02:57, 21 March 2024
- * [[Karat]]: (American English) unit for measuring the proportion of gold in a piece of metal (usually jew3 KB (550 words) - 05:23, 6 February 2010
- '''Diarrhea''' (sometimes [[British and American English#ae and oe become e|spelled]] '''diarrhoea''') is "an increased liquidity or2 KB (290 words) - 11:53, 2 February 2023
- '''Collectables''', or, in American English, ''collectibles'', are items of human manufacture considered worth keeping.1 KB (181 words) - 17:46, 19 April 2011
- # He '''practiced''' ([[American English|AmE]])/'''practised''' ([[British English|BrE]]) piano until 2 a.m.7 KB (1,040 words) - 11:46, 2 February 2023
- ...crûcifŷ, mágnifŷ''', [[British English|BrE]] '''páralŷse, ánalŷse''' (in [[American English|AmE]], both -'''yze'''), and stressed in '''hŷacinth, dŷnamite, Dionŷsu6 KB (1,096 words) - 10:09, 19 December 2016
- The '''Comité International des Poids et Mesures''' (in American English: ''International Committee for Weights and Measures''), abbreviated '''CIPM1 KB (241 words) - 23:07, 16 April 2011
- ...'''ẁarrant, Ẁarwick''' (= '''ó''', as in '''ẁas, ẁant''', all '''wà''' in American English)8 KB (1,297 words) - 07:16, 10 April 2014
- 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 (422 words) - 09:31, 22 April 2014
- ...'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
- {{rpl|American English}}7 KB (947 words) - 17:24, 22 March 2024
- '''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 (1,768 words) - 09:45, 5 September 2013
- '''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 (2,439 words) - 15:19, 20 March 2023
- ...[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 (395 words) - 15:04, 15 April 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
- ...|title=Word frequency lists and dictionary from the Corpus of Contemporary American English}}, {{cite web |url=http://subtlexus.lexique.org/ |title=SubtlexUS: American9 KB (1,370 words) - 18:04, 9 September 2012
- ...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 (2,080 words) - 15:04, 15 April 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 (1,509 words) - 09:22, 11 February 2016
- ''[[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 (2,513 words) - 06:06, 28 January 2017
- *[http://www.bartleby.com/68/20/120.html The Columbia Guide to Standard American English (1993): A.D., B.C., (A.)C.E., B.C.E.]19 KB (2,966 words) - 11:23, 8 June 2009
- ...g differences are insignificant compared with those of British English and American English.8 KB (1,260 words) - 11:32, 19 August 2022
- 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 America15 KB (2,623 words) - 12:05, 10 August 2017
- cf. '''paréntheses''': whether between parentheses ([[American English|AmE]]; [[British English|BrE]] brackets), square brackets (BrE; AmE bracket11 KB (1,818 words) - 18:29, 13 April 2017
- 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''' = '''premíer13 KB (2,002 words) - 18:55, 2 August 2017
- 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), '''t14 KB (2,413 words) - 08:50, 11 November 2016
- ...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 sl24 KB (3,611 words) - 16:37, 26 May 2017
- ! [[American English|English, US]]18 KB (2,421 words) - 05:14, 25 September 2011
- ...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 [[Physics8 KB (1,191 words) - 19:28, 22 January 2011
- ...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 teach30 KB (4,400 words) - 14:17, 18 February 2024
- ...ed = '''fŏur''' ''4'', '''fŏre''' ''front''; this pronunciation is used in American English for British '''fór'''-11 KB (1,649 words) - 17:27, 17 May 2017
- ...ter" and "liter" instead of "metre" and "litre" in keeping with standard [[American English]] spelling, which also corresponds to the official spelling used in several23 KB (3,590 words) - 20:32, 4 February 2024
- '''Public''' ([[American English|AmE]]: /ˈpəblɪk/; [[British English|BrE]]: /ˈpʌblɪk/) is an important21 KB (3,258 words) - 14:32, 31 March 2024
- '''râbid''' ([[American English|AmE]] can be '''á''') '''résumè''' ''[[American English|AmE]] CV'': may be written '''''résumé''''' or '''''resumé''''' to disti15 KB (2,228 words) - 14:59, 28 May 2017
- '''néver mînd''' ''disregarding'' can be one word in American English (e.g. [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s album, ''[[Nevermind]]'', cf. British En9 KB (1,447 words) - 19:45, 23 June 2017
- ...; 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]] (witho29 KB (5,292 words) - 18:48, 13 April 2017
- '''môld''' ''[[American English]]'' = '''môuld''' ''[[British English]] '''môuld''' ''[[British English]]'' = '''môld''' ''[[American English]]''21 KB (3,209 words) - 08:09, 5 September 2017