british english vs american english words exercises

... British English American English accommodation accommodations action replay instant replay aerofoil airfoil ... switchblade flyover overpass football soccer footway sidewalk fringe (hair) bangs full board (in hotels) American plan full stop (punctuation) period garden yard; lawn gearing (finance) leverage gear lever

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 22:31

... Truck British Boot American Trunk British Football American Soccer British Spanner American Wrench British American Pharmacy Drug Store British Allowance American Pocket Money British Petrol American ... (Gasoline) British Bonnet American Hood British Toilet Loo/ WC American Bathroom British Rubber American Eraser British Flat American Apartment British Mate American Friend British Holiday American ... kinds of English Soda Soft Drink Pop Fizzy Drink British Trousers American Pants British Lift American Elevator British American Autumn Fall British American Biscuits Cookies British Lorry American

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2016, 06:09

... Truck British Boot American Trunk British Football American Soccer British Spanner American Wrench British American Pharmacy Drug Store British Allowance American Pocket Money British Petrol American ... (Gasoline) British Bonnet American Hood British Toilet Loo/ WC American Bathroom British Rubber American Eraser British Flat American Apartment British Mate American Friend British Holiday American ... kinds of English Soda Soft Drink Pop Fizzy Drink British Trousers American Pants British Lift American Elevator British American Autumn Fall British American Biscuits Cookies British Lorry American

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 14:56

... AMERICAN ENGLISH VS BRITISH ENGLISH PHAN, THE HUNG, Ph.D Applied linguistics & Linguistics Social Varieties of the English Language • Standard English • Standard English is only ... exceptions • In some expressions, British English does not use articles, while American English does British English has in hospital and at university, where American English requires in the hospital ... British English and American English use different pronouns to repeat the indefinite pronoun “one” British English uses “one”, for example, “One cannot succeed unless one tries hard”, while American

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2022, 18:11

... terminology used for automobiles. American English - hood British English - bonnet American English - trunk British English - boot American English - truck British English - lorry Once again, ... following: American English - on the weekend British English - at the weekend American English - on a team British English - in a team American English - please write me soon British English ... British English (B), American English (A), or if they would be the same in both types of English (AB). Then change the British English sentences into American English, and the American English

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 21:21

... in American English -€ VS -0e€ or —ae American - ? ?British Encylopedia Encylycopaedia Maneuver Maneeuvre Medieval Mediaeval - Some nouns that in American English end in -er, in British English ... Other words also have variant spellings American English British English Trang 23 2.4 Vocabulary According to Bartlett (1848), there are many English words which are different to American words ... mushrooming and they teach many variants of English: British English, American English, or Australian English If a Vietnamese student learns American English, he often has difficulty in differntiating

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2014, 00:34

... 22/35 British American English English football soccer 23/35 British American English English trousers pants 24/35 British American English English jumper sweater 25/35 British American English English ... 26/35 British American English English wash basin sink 27/35 British American English English tap faucet 28/35 British American English English wardrobe closet 29/35 British American English English ... British American English English film movie 1/35 British American English English cinema movie theater 2/35 British American English English petrol station gas station 3/35 British American English

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2016, 10:08

... not worry about the problem of learning PVs that are useful only in American or British English PHRASAL VERBS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH 679 Although PVs that show a wider and more even distribution ... between American and British English and an examination of the usage information of these frequently used PVs across registers in American English DEFINITION OF PHRASAL VERB For any study of PVs, ... VERBS IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH ENGLISH 669 TABLE Comparison of the Most Common PVs’ Overall Frequency Patterns in COCA and the BNC Total observed frequency of the 150 PVs Total number of words minus

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2022, 19:00

... however, has an exclusively British additional meaning: a ‘wide shallow basket.’ S.E. See Standard English. sea, n. beach Sea and seaside are used in Britain where Americans would usually say ... proper context, is what Americans call a sedan. 2. Saloon is commercialese in Britain, except on a ship (and see saloon bar and saloon-car). In the commercial idiom the British use the terms hair-dressing, ... comment An American may speak of Harvard as his school; no Briton would apply that term to his university. The word is confined in Britain to the grades below college level (college in the American

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... 103 devilry, n black magic The British say deviltry as well to refer to this diabolical art. devolution, n. home rule (The e is long in British English, short in American. ) Governmental decentraliza- ... synonymous with the American slang term cheesy which, however, in Britain can mean ‘swanky.’ dinner-jacket, n. tuxedo Americans say dinner jacket too, but tuxedo is never used in British English. Com- ... executive To the British layman director means about the same thing in the context of busi- ness epithets as executive would mean to an American layman. Directorships in British companies and American

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... machine operator. The British also use the term machine-minder where Americans would say machine operator. mad on Inf. crazy about Inf. Americans also say mad about and the British also say crazy ... One word the British rarely use as the equivalent of mend or repair is fix, an Americanism. mental, adj. crazy Inf. An American will speak of a disturbed person as a mental case. The British content ... see make all the running. make up fill British chemists (druggists) make up prescriptions rather than fill them. -making see comment Hyphenated with such words as shy-, shame-, sick-, to create

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... expression pots of money To put the pot on a horse at a British race-course is to shoot your wad or bet your stack at an American track The British also use the expression to go nap on a horse to ... in American terms, because shrimps in Britain are generally tiny things compared to what Americans mean by the term A Briton would consider a prawn a large, rather than a small, shrimp What Americans ... director producer In the British theater, producer and director are both used to mean ‘director’ in the American sense, and theatrical manager means ‘producer’ in the American sense In the film

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... curious relationship between the British uses of agree and accept, which are more or less the reverse of the American uses, since agree is used in Britain where an American would normally say accept ... in the phrase, peculiar to American ears, all-in wrestling in which the gladiators are permitted to just about anything except resort to weapons Common to British and American vocabularies is the ... the American sense is civilities in Britain.) The American term conveniences is also used and is found in the abbreviated phrase, all mod cons, which stands for all modern conveniences Another British

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 13:20

... 1 12 11 10 09 Photo Credits All im ages® Shutterstock, Inc. English Words 4000 Essential English Words 5 4000 Essential English Words 5 Paul Nation © 2009 Compass Publishing All rights reserved. ... The 600 words in each book of this series along with the additional target words presented in the appendices included in the first three books of the series are the most useful words in English. ... they were chosen, these words have the following characteristics: 1 They are useful in both spoken and written English. No matter what English course you are studying, the words in these books will

Ngày tải lên: 15/11/2013, 15:15

... issue of English vocabulary called ? ?English words formed by conversion relating to the names of animals” Trang 8 2 Aims of the study This study is conducted to help readers understand the words ... that English vocabulary is one of great importance and that one does not know much of it, he cannot use English to communicate easily Realizing and thinking highly of the importance of English ... new words to name new things and to indicate new ideas Some of these are applied by foreign languages but most of them are homemade People use the words that they have to help make the new words

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:51

... the words in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. In its operation it utilizes a prepared dictionary of around nine hundred words to assign parts of speech to special or exceptional words. ... remaining ed and ing words, generally NA ed words and VB or AV ing words, are given in Table 1 along with the s-ending exception words. There are 104 words in this table, which is an exhaustive ... special-pur- pose words which are so important in a mechanized handling of English. Table 5 shows the 253 function words so extracted. DETERMINATION OF PARTS OF SPEECH 57 The words are listed

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... đính kèm gốc Unit 2: ETYMOLOGY OF ENGLISH WORDS Contents Translation - Loans International words History of the English language Changes borrowed words go through Etymological doublets ... and stylistic characteristics of words 1. History of the Englis h language Are all English words really English? 1. History of the Englis h language o English belongs to the Indo- European ... influence. 2. Changes borrowed words go through Do borrowed words change or do they remain the same? 2. Changes borrowed words go through • Borrowed words adjust themselves to thei

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 02:00

... an American ton contains 2,000 lbs. Note that a British hundredweight contains 112 lbs. (not 100) so that 20 of them make up a British ton. It may be interesting to note that the Americans ... list, supplied by British Leyland Motors, Inc., may be of interest. The usual order followed in this book (English- American) is here reversed, on the theory that in this case the American reader ... standard British gallon is the Imperial gallon, equal to 277.420 cubic inches. The standard U.S. gallon is the old British wine gallon, equal to 231 cubic inches. Thus, the British gallon

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 07:21

... has an exclusively British additional meaning: a 'wide shallow basket.' S.E. See Standard English. sea, n. beach Sea and seaside are used in Britain where Americans would usually ... shag fuck Slang. This vulgar Briticism and its American counterpart can be thought of as the verb to engage in sexual intercourse. But as in American explicit vulgarisms, phrases borrowed ... context. The British term for underwear shorts is pants, sometimes underpants, though the under would seem to be superfluous because the word pants alone implies that. Pants, in the American

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 07:21

... the user American, is now uttered more and more frequently by Britons. See also Not at all. plimsolls, n. sneakers Another British term is gym shoes. Plimsolls is the common British word ... pots of money To put the pot on a horse at a British race-course is to shoot your wad or bet your stack at an American track The British also use the expression to go nap on a ... moving forces behind the British Merchant Shipping Act of 1876. plonk, n. cheap wine Slang. Plink-plonk was a variation on blink-blonk, a jocular play on vin blanc by the British Tommy in World

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 07:21