cambridge dictionary british and american english
Panstwowe Wydanwnictwo Naukowe- Elements Of British And American English
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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). ... 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 complete a 25 minute drive, because he didn't ... garbage knapsack sedan report card Scotch tape stocks free time garters panty hose can candy apple bathroom flashlight pants undershirt rubber boots windshield zipper rubber...
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A comparative study of insults in vietnamese and american english
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
... 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 from a lecture at the University of Cambridge, England. Unless ... represented a thou- sand million, trillion a thousand thou- sand million, and so on. In the nineteenth century, the United States adopted the French system, and in 1948 France adopted the British system. ... dark, and handsome,” leave out “both.” BOUGH and BOW. See Homo- phones. Brackets. See Punctuation, 7. 46 bough and bow 01-A-E_4 10/22/02 10:29 AM Page 46 CONSENSUS. A question for two critics and...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
... a and droit. One newspaper divided that word into “adr-” and “oit.” The rules, and their exceptions, go on at length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes, consonants, vowels, and double letters. And ... fantastic.” And a member of the U.S. House of Representatives said about its speaker, “He’s making fantastic efforts on behalf of the American people.” Were they implying that talk of high standards and ... See CRES- CENDO. DEER, plural. See Plurals and singu- lars, 2C. DEFAMATION. See LIBEL and SLANDER. DEFEND. See Verbs, 1C. Defining clause. See THAT and WHICH. Dehumanization. A writer does not consciously...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
... memoranda.” It was a memorandum. A participant in a television forum said, “North drew up memoran- das. . . .” They were memoranda or memorandums. Because memoranda is plural, “a memoranda” and ... mean and the median are both averages. ME and I. See Pronouns, 10. ME and MYSELF. See Pronouns, 3, 4. Measures, quantities. See AMOUNT and NUMBER; Collective nouns, 3; FEWER and LESS; MANY and ... as in “small, medium, and large sizes.” The last two mediums resemble the Latin medium, meaning middle, which English adopted. MEDIAN. See MEAN (noun). MEMORANDA and MEMO- RANDUM. A U.S. senator...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
... They would, for instance, 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 ... something offensive and no way it wouldn’t be picked up, set aside and then repeated just when it would hurt the most. This is simpler and clearer: He would say something offensive and it would be ... 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 doubt I can live so still” (1875). A...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
... in place of a noun. For instance, “Stand beside her and guide her” substitutes for “Stand be- side America and guide America” in a famous song. Pronouns are handy de- vices, enabling us to avoid ... restric- 304 prescribe and proscribe 03-M–Q_4 10/22/02 10:32 AM Page 304 pletely: “Jack said Sam took the money.” And “Fruit, trees, and flowers” are not the same as “fruit trees and flowers.” And it might ... (36) . . . (13)” and 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...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
... (energize and enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and sanction and sanctions); DISINGENUOUS and INGENUOUS; EMIGRATE and IMMIGRATE; PRESCRIBE and PROSCRIBE. • Misunderstood terms. See CREDITOR and DEBTOR; ... (1758–1843), who changed the British -our and -re endings (as in honour and centre) to -or and -er (honor and center). 3. Principles A. The best rule The rules of spelling and their excep- tions are ... may be, for example, prices of $1,000 and $4,000; about 30,000 and 7 million speakers; 147 and 160 pounds; first and sixth grades; Maine and Florida; adagio and vivace—or more subjective ones: Chicken...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
... one also protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness? THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ- ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” in place of ... not.” An American general exhibited tauto- logical mastery. As secretary of state, he addressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligence about the Falkland Islands: “It ... to explore. “Ambiguity” (not “grace”) sums it up. THOSE and THEM. See THEM and THOSE. THOSE and THESE. See THESE and THOSE. THOU, THEE, and YE. See Pro- nouns, 10A. “THUNK.” See THINK, past partici- ple. THUS....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
... people: who and that. See WHO, THAT, and WHICH. Which has two possessive forms: of which and whose. Whose applies both to people and to things. See WHOSE, 1. WHICH and THAT. See THAT and WHICH. WHICH and ... and BEST, WORSE and WORST. WOULD and WILL. See Double negative, 1; Subjunctive, 2, 3; Tense, 4. WOULD HAVE, WOULD’VE, and “WOULD OF.” See HAVE, HAS, HAD, 2. WRACK. See RACK and WRACK. WREAK and ... winding their way. WENT. See GONE and WENT. WERE. See WAS and WERE; Sub- junctive. WHAT EVER and WHATEVER. See (-)EVER. WHEN AND IF. See UNLESS AND UNTIL. when and if 467 04-R–Z_4 10/22/02 10:33...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
... doesn’t. It agrees with all singular nouns and with the pronouns he, she, and it and other singular pronouns except I and you. So “that [feeling] doesn’t mean.” And there is an “idiot that doesn’t know.” ... Joseph Priestley was a scientist and the discoverer of oxy- gen. He was also a philosopher, politi- cian, and theologian, and in the 1760s he wrote The Rudiments of English Grammar. In clear prose ... of multiplicity without “in droves.” “DRUG” and DRAGGED. See DRAGGED and “DRUG.” DUAL and DUEL. See Homo- phones. DUE TO. When to use the phrase due to and when not to use it can be confus- ing,...
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