What are the main differences between american english and british english?
>>75910471
water = wadder vs watta
>>75910715
What?
Apartment = flat
That's pretty much it
erb vs hurb
(Both herb)
>>75910784
>water = wadder vs watta
water = wadder vs watta
>>75910784
in words like water we flap the t so it sounds more like a d and the british drop the r.
>>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
>>75910471
shall/will
mom/mum
cookie/biscuit
>>75910981
Shall is archaic.
>>75910471
What do the British call pop?
>>75911229
>What do the British call pop?
fizzy drink
>>75910471
bathroom vs toilet
ass vs arse
nigger vs pajeet
>>75911229
>pop
off yourself
>>75910471
Pronunciation and the placement of certain letters in words, like center and centre.
>>75911953
no u
>sup buds
might as well call each other petal
American has no letter u
>>75912543
Sht the fck p
>>75912397
>he doesn't call his buds, buds
>>75912397
Bud is short for buddy
>>75911953
Pop is the superior name.
>>75910471
Fries are chips and chips are crisps
>>75913444
yeah m8 thanks
i didn't know that, my little flower.
>>75913745
De rien
>>75910471
They have some weird ass way of pronouncing "schedule" that I can't even begin to convey in writing.
>>75914590
sheh jew uhl
>>75914693
Blows my mind bro... meanwhile in burgerland its "sked-yule"
>>75914693
>>75914835
SKEH JEW UHL
>>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.
>>75914835
sked jewel
>>75910715
Wander vs wo ah
>>75910875
>>75910857
That's an accent thing you stupid yanks
>>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.
>>75912397
>sup mates
might as well call each other spouse
Most of it is just differences in anglisisng romance loanwords. But for some retarded reason yanks spell plough and draught as plow and draft.
>>75919198
I ploughed ur mum m8
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.
southern english makes european girls wet
>>75919340
how will brits ever recover
>>75919340
>car (pron. corr)
Maybe in pissant backwards barbarian Slavland, but no one here says "corr".
>>75919430
As a Southerner, I can confirm. Especially in the UK, Italy and Oz.
>>75919757
soda best girl
America has simplified the language
https://youtu.be/5wSw3IWRJa0
>>75910471
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcA6YzbdH6c
dropped the letter u in the harbor along with the tea
>>75920520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF0w5L0ZsVs
>>75920547
They would have forgiven you if you had just stolen it instead of wasting it all.
>>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
>>75911229
>pop
>>75919430
The perception of a southern accent is actually lack of education/being stupid