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What are the main differences between american english and

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What are the main differences between american english and british english?
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>>75910471
water = wadder vs watta
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>>75910715
What?
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Apartment = flat

That's pretty much it
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erb vs hurb
(Both herb)
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>>75910784
>water = wadder vs watta


water = wadder vs watta
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>>75910784
in words like water we flap the t so it sounds more like a d and the british drop the r.
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>>75910715
he means the actual american english, spelling not phonetics
>>75910471
the most common difference is the er/re ends of word

center (US) vs centre (UK)
meter vs metre

also, our/or
harbor vs harbour
honor vs honour
color vs colour
labor vs labour
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>>75910471
shall/will
mom/mum
cookie/biscuit
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>>75910981
Shall is archaic.
>>75910471
What do the British call pop?
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>>75911229
>What do the British call pop?
fizzy drink
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>>75910471
bathroom vs toilet
ass vs arse
nigger vs pajeet
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>>75911229
>pop

off yourself
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>>75910471
Pronunciation and the placement of certain letters in words, like center and centre.
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>>75911953
no u
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>sup buds
might as well call each other petal
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American has no letter u
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>>75912543
Sht the fck p
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>>75912397
>he doesn't call his buds, buds
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>>75912397
Bud is short for buddy
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>>75911953
Pop is the superior name.
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>>75910471
Fries are chips and chips are crisps
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>>75913444
yeah m8 thanks
i didn't know that, my little flower.
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>>75913745
De rien
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>>75910471
They have some weird ass way of pronouncing "schedule" that I can't even begin to convey in writing.
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>>75914590
sheh jew uhl
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>>75914693
Blows my mind bro... meanwhile in burgerland its "sked-yule"
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>>75914693
>>75914835
SKEH JEW UHL
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>>75914904
Nah they don't put a hard 'c' in it like we do, and our way of saying it turns it into just two syllables.
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>>75914835
sked jewel
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>>75910715
Wander vs wo ah
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>>75910875
>>75910857
That's an accent thing you stupid yanks
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>>75910471
>What are the main differences between american english and british english?

British English sounds like they have a huge dick in their mouths, whereas American English especially the Northeast sounds like they have a dick in their ass.
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>>75912397
>sup mates
might as well call each other spouse
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Most of it is just differences in anglisisng romance loanwords. But for some retarded reason yanks spell plough and draught as plow and draft.
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>>75919198
I ploughed ur mum m8
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HUNDREDS of disparate words of which we fourth worlders have no idea and probably use the American version every time. American car (pron. corr) vs. British trolleyblimp, etc.
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southern english makes european girls wet
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>>75919340
how will brits ever recover
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>>75919340
>car (pron. corr)
Maybe in pissant backwards barbarian Slavland, but no one here says "corr".
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>>75919430
As a Southerner, I can confirm. Especially in the UK, Italy and Oz.
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>>75911229
>pop
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>>75919757
soda best girl
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America has simplified the language

https://youtu.be/5wSw3IWRJa0
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>>75910471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcA6YzbdH6c
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dropped the letter u in the harbor along with the tea
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>>75920520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF0w5L0ZsVs
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>>75920547
They would have forgiven you if you had just stolen it instead of wasting it all.
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>>75910471
American term = British term
Color = colour
ass = arse
center = centre
sausages = the queen's droppings
school = speak & trace learning place
gun = rooty-tooty point and shooty
keyboard = hoighty toighty tippy typers
and so on
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>>75911229
>pop


>>75919430
The perception of a southern accent is actually lack of education/being stupid
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