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Panstwowe Wydanwnictwo Naukowe- Elements Of British And American English
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 09:55
American English vs British English
... (thuốc ) “) của Anh. Người Anh dường như không sử dụng chữ administrate. Theo từ điển Oxford English Dictionary ( viết tắt : O.E.D ), chữ administrate là phó từ của administer. Administer thường ... đương với chữ subject (thần dân, công dân của Anh).Chúng ta thường thấy trên báo chí American citizen và British subject. Ngoài ra, chữ citizen ở Mỹ còn có ý nghĩa là resident, inhabitant (cư ... cơ cấu gọi là carpet-bagger government (chính quyền của bọn đầu cơ chính trị) The Oxford English Dictionary dẫn chứng, thời gian từ này bắt đầu được sử dụng ở Mỹ sớm hơn ở Anh CARRY Bỏ hàng...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2013, 01:26
British English or American English? docx
... tiếng Anh của người Anh (British English, B.E.) và tiếng Anh của người Mỹ có một ít điểm khác nhau. Và sau đây là một số thí dụ : British English or American English? bên A.E. theo ... hiện nhiều hơn và năm 1755 cụ Samuel Johnson soạn bộ Oxford Dictionary of English. Năm 1828, cụ Noah Webster hoàn thành bộ Webter’s Dictionary. Từ đó bộ ODE là nền tảng cho spelling của B.E. ... kỳ này gọi là Old English, kéo dài mãi đến thế kỷ thừ mười một khi người Pháp xâm chiếm nước Anh (The Norman Conquest). Thời kỳ thứ nhì này, người ta thường gọi là Middle English, lúc này...
Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 19:20
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
... OF AMERICAN ENGLISH The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American English. Although the Great Vowel Shift had assigned new values to the long vow- els, many British, ... linguistic resources of American English this Dictionary becomes a cultural property book for all the American people. A century before Noah Webster organized his first American dictionary (1806), ... tlip is not an English word and do not have to go to a dictionary to discover that fact. Intuition tells them that no English word can begin with tl But when faced with trin, English speakers—though...
Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 10:40
What are the differences between British English and American English? pptx
... When you write the date in numbers British and American English differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07)....
Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 09:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... containing all the essentials succinctly. Noah Webster’s first general dictionary, 1806, was titled A Compen- dious Dictionary of the English Lan- guage. He meant that it was concise. When a lexicographer ... years or so.” The book was pub- lished in the United States by an American publisher for American read- ers, but the author is British and his dis- cussion of the future of the universe is taken ... any measurable ex- tent. The earliest use of billion quoted in The Oxford English Dictionary was by John Locke, 1690. The dictionary says that billion, trillion, and quadrillion were purposely formed...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... pronunciations differ. It is hi•er•o•glyph•ic in one dictionary, hi•ero•glyph•ic in another; tel•e•phone in the first dictionary, tele•phone in the other. One dictionary makes it gon• a•do•trop•ic, a second ... on at length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes, consonants, vowels, and double letters. And the American and British systems vary. Words divided according to pro- nunciation in the former (knowl-edge, democ-racy) ... transla- tion is “I don’t have no money,” which in English is considered ungrammatical; to make it grammatical, either scrap the “don’t” or change “no” to any. The English- speaking tradition is that a double...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... -ISE In Britain the American -ize, the origi- nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise (after the modern French practice of changing the Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize ... Page 213 Latin American, with no hyphen. Used as an adjective, as in Latin -American country, the term takes a hyphen. 2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH, MEXICAN, and CHICANO Latin(- )American used to ... Greek -izo to -iser). For in- stance, the American realize is spelled re- alise. The Oxford English Dictionary finds no good reason for -ise, “in opposi- -ize ending 197 02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... say overcautious and reject “overly cau- tious.” The Random House Dictionary lists about 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over- words, many of which it prefers ... stresses way or gives the two words about equal stress. These are correct examples from The Oxford English Dictionary: “They were tied up and could noways appear” (1702). “I have lived a virgin and I noway ... perfectly proper, but it has been one of the mean- ings of over since the Middle Ages. The Oxford English Dictionary offers eight quotations, from the fourteenth century on, to illustrate that over...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... we.” See 10D.) Further examples are taken from a book about English words, a state’s tax form, and two news articles: For the dedicated dictionary browser a new edition is a great joy, but sometimes ... so on. It is obscure whether the editor who put the list into print was British and neglected to make the correc- tion for American readers or was Ameri- can and just did not know any better. The ... goes with each verb, adjective, noun, or pronoun is a daunting task for the foreign student of English, sometimes for the native speaker too. The choice of preposition often depends on idiom,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... (mainly non-Indians—many American Indian groups call themselves that), who foster “Native American as a synonym. Users of that term exclude most native-born Americans and several indigenous peo- ples under the American ... eighties African -American caught on as a formal term. It has less utility, covering only Americans; it would not include, say, a black Con- golese. Nor would it include a natural- ized American who ... and weapons pro- duction.” In addition, American is illogically applied to only one item; any- way it is unnecessary in a story about bills in the American Congress. (The series errors 379 04-R–Z_4...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... toward warmth may go on or it may not.” An American general exhibited tauto- logical mastery. As secretary of state, he addressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligence about ... THAT, ALL THAT. THAT, ALL THAT. This is a British import of recent decades, an illogical col- loquialism that should dispel any notion that the best English must come from England. It is the ... common for long stretches of human history.” May one also protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH;...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... 457 Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and Helen E. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1988. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 1st ed., William ... 1972. The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1971. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur- rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox- ford, ... the English Language, 2 vol., Essex, Conn.: Verbatim, copyright 1931–1935 (1978 printing). Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, Hyman E. Goldin, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1950. A Dictionary...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21