british or american english dictionary
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 ... dạng –er, theatre, fiber. Tương tự như vậy, B.E. và A.E. ta có flavour/flavor, honour/honor, colour/color organise/organize, dramatise/dramatize mấy khác biệt này đều từ gốc Pháp/ gốc Latin ... thì humor, labor. Thấy được sự cần thiết là ngôn ngữ phải có một qui tắc nào đó, các sách về văn phạm càng lúc càng xuất hiện nhiều hơn và năm 1755 cụ Samuel Johnson soạn bộ Oxford Dictionary...
Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 19:20
American English vs British English
... Mỹ khi dùng corn trong một từ ghép thì nghĩa của chữ corn (bắp) không thay đổi. Ví dụ: corn bread (bánh mỳ bột bắp), corn cob (lõi bắp), corn field (ruộng bắp), corn husk (vỏ bắp), corn musk (mùi ... vận tải, hoặc người chuyên chở còn nghĩa của người Mỹ. CORPORATION Tiếng Mỹ corporation law = tiếng Anh company law (luật công ty) CORRESPONDING MEMBER Nghĩa Anh: thành viên nước ngoài có ... store = tiếng Anh cooking store (nhà ăn, hiệu ăn) COPY Trong tòa soạn báo Mỹ, công việc của một copy-reader (biên tập) tương đương với công việc của một sub-editor (phó chủ tịch) ở Anh CORN...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2013, 01:26
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
... history of the word alligator involves borrowing from Spanish into English, as its etymology reveals, but the word history also describes the role of taboo deforma- tion in the history of the word ... word or word element in an etymology printed in small capitals is an entry in the Dictionary and should be referred to for more etymological information. Linguistic forms that are not Modern English ... 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),...
Ngày tải lên: 05/04/2014, 10:40
Penguin dictionaryof american english usageand style
... introduction *The Oxford English Dictionary, seeking to record all English words, says it covers more than 500,000 words and phrases in its twenty volumes. The Guinness Book of World Records places the ... before such a word is not standard. An precedes a word starting with a silent h: an hour, an honorable man. Us- ing an before a pronounced h, in a word whose h was once silent, like historic or humble, ... that one needs a or an (indefinite article) and not the (definite article). A or an goes before a word or phrase denoting a person or thing (noun) but not a specific one. The person or thing is usually...
Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 03:08
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). ... toilet (but the loo not the room) dustbin lorry boot vest flannel windscreen postcode zip Notes: 1 - When used to talk about roads and motorways. Someone I know took over 4 hours to ... rubbish rucksack saloon car school report Sellotape shares spare time suspenders (used to hold up ladies stockings) tights tin toffee apple toilet torch trousers vest wellies / wellingtons...
Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 09:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... wrong, “a moral obligation.” Morale, mental spirits; “the soldiers’ morale.” Ordinance, a law or regulation, often minor; “city ordinance.” Ordnance, weaponry, particularly artillery; “army ordnance.” Oscillate, ... certificate or other paper to be held temporarily and exchanged for stock, money, services, etc., or such is- suance in general. Script, handwriting; or the written form of a dramatic work or oral program. Seasonable, ... or state that could apply to only one (thing or person) applies to two. Therefore both should usually not go with any descrip- tive word or phrase or any verb that ap- plies only to two or more....
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... both words, fore or front, though forward lacks an e. This word descended from the Old English foreweard. “FOR FREE.” See FREE, 1. FORMER. Former (pronoun) is the opposite of latter. The former ... 2.) FOREWORD and FORWARD. The foreword of a small book is headed, in large letters, “FORWARD.” No one literate in English should mix up the two words; their confounding is a blunder in- deed for ... foreign locale.” To speak of “the exotic foreign locale” is al- most like saying “the foreign foreign lo- cale.” Foreign is the original meaning of exotic, which comes from the Greek word for...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... senator at a hear- ing kept referring to a written record as “a memoranda.” It was a memorandum. A participant in a television forum said, “North drew up memoran- das. . . .” They were memoranda or memorandums. Because ... verb meta- morphose—to transform (something) or be transformed, as by magic or meta- morphosis—a journalist said a politician who changed jobs had “metamorpho- sized.” See also FACT- words, 2 (end). 2. ... “She’s a kind of butterfly.” / “George is a sort of expert.” The same goes for kind of a (or an) or sort of a (or an). “My boss is kind of a tyrant.” / “They say Fred is sort of an animal at home.” Either...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... plural words; that is, between words that apply to one thing or person and words that apply to more than one; or (2) a form of a particular word or phrase that indi- cates such singularity or plurality. ... on word usage, it is not so fine. Change “write” to writes. Whenever the subject of a sentence or clause consists of two or more alterna- tives—that is, words or phrases linked by or or nor—and ... nor: “This is neither fish nor fowl.” In such a construction, nor is always right. It is no more correct to say “neither . . . or than to say “either . . . nor.” Nor, like or, links alternatives....
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... for whom [or for what] or to whom [or to what] the action is done), for instance, “has given Judy and me the privilege.” (Some consider these forms a separate case, the dative.) ã An object, or ... citizen or about General Motors’ plants and the General Motors Building. Note that it is never “United State’s” or “General Motor’s.” The names of organizations are highly variable in their use or ... “Regu- lators’ beef with selling milk for cheap.” The “for” was unnecessary and unid- iomatic. “. . . Selling milk cheap” (or cheaply) is enough. You do not say “moving for quick” or “coming for soon.” That...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... supposed limit, or more. . . . For months the company had con- sidered more than 200 new names, ranging from U.S.S.A. and Amcor to Maxus. Do U.S.S.A. and Amcor together consti- tute some limit? Or is Amcor ... purported to be genuine. Change is purported to purports. ã Its subject normally is not a person. A sentence like “He purported to tell investigators the whole story” is wrong. Changing “purported” ... right word would have been racked, without the w. To rack (verb, transitive) is literally to torture (someone) on the rack; more broadly to torture or torment with phys- ical or mental pain, or to...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21
Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... an organization to protect Holly- wood’s reputation. Fortunately, historical authors are not ready to write of “Italian Navigator and Discoverer of the New World Christo- pher Columbus,” or of ... the thing or per- son mentioned or understood. Whether the thing or person is here or there deter- mines which word to choose. When re- ferring to something near, in space or time (or, sometimes, ... addressing a one- time Senator Scott that way, even though he has legally been Mr. Scott for many years. The Honorable honorific has stay- ing power too. See HONORABLE (etc.). For titles of books, etc.,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:21