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What is the biggest difference between spoken English and spoken American?

I. Phonetic aspects

Because there are still huge differences in accents between regions within a country, such as the differences between residents in the north and south of the United States, the differences between London accent and upper-middle class accent, here we only compare the RP accent between "ordinary Americans" and southern Britain.

1. Compared with British pronunciation, the biggest feature of American pronunciation is that in American pronunciation, except Mrs, every R sound in a word will be reflected (no matter where it is), with special emphasis on the rolling tongue sound of the R at the end of the word, such as teacher, car and neighbor. It is particularly obvious that people in American TV dramas speak the R sound. However, British accents generally don't pronounce every R. For the above words, they are all neutral, unstressed and tonal pronunciations: teacha, ca, neighba. Personally, I think this difference is the most obvious and easy to judge when talking with a foreigner.

2. The unstressed letter E is often pronounced as /e/ in American English and /i/ in British English. For example, Americans pronounce it except as/ekseparate/, and British pronounce it as /ikseparate/.

3. When unvoiced consonant /t/ is sandwiched between two vowels, the former is stressed vowel and the latter is lightly pronounced vowel. Americans are used to blurring unvoiced consonants, so the pronunciation of writer and rider is almost the same.

Similar examples are the latter and the ladder; Petals (petals) and pedals (pedals).

4. Other common pronunciation differences are: herbal is pronounced erbal in American English, and H is omitted; The stressed syllables of many words are also different from British English.

5. The intonation of American English is relatively stable, with little register change, which sounds supple and comfortable, while the intonation of British English is cadence, sonorous and powerful, with great register change and a little more momentum.

2. In words:

Gasoline, called gasoline in the United States and gasoline in Britain (gasoline was once a password used by the US military to identify mixed-race German soldiers during World War II, saying that gasoline was used to arrest everyone);

Taxis, American taxis, British taxis;

French fries are called French fries in the United States and potato chips in Britain (chips means potato chips in the United States, equivalent to potato chips); In British English);

Garbage, American garbage and garbage; In Britain;

Queue, queue in the United States, queue in Britain;

Jelly is called jello in the United States and Jelly in the United Kingdom (Jelly in the United States and jam in English are the same meaning, that is, jam).

Pants are called pants in America and pants in Britain (pants in English means underwear, which is equivalent to underwear in American English).

Candy is called candy in America and sweet in England.

Apartment, called apartment in America, called apartment in England,

Sports shoes are called sports shoes in America and sports shoes in Britain.

Football is called soccer in America and soccer in Britain.

Subway, called subway in America, underground; In Britain;

American faucet and British faucet.

Flashlight is called flashlight in America and torch in Britain.

Garden, called courtyard in America and garden in England,

Elevator, called elevator in America, called elevator in England,

Canned food is called can in America and tin in Britain.

Vest, called vest in America and vest in England,

American diapers and British diapers,

Cookies are called cookies in America and cookies in Britain.

Movies are called movies in America and movies in Britain.

Autumn is called autumn in America and autumn in Britain.

Wardrobe, called wardrobe in America and wardrobe in Britain.

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