| British English vs American English |
"Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it´s important but he doesn´t know what to do with it." Adam Cooper (19th century)
"The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language." Oscar Wilde
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| Author: Owen Broughton |
| Date of post: 2006-08-25 |
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| English, Japalish and Americalish |
| I would like to briefly consider the complexity of a non ? native English teacher in contrast to a native English teacher. My curiosity in this area has stemmed from participating on a TEFL course as a native English speaker. The diversity of students resulted |
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| Author: Emma Phillips |
| Date of post: 2006-11-20 |
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| Pronunciation differences between English and Americans |
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English Pronunciation: How does it differ and why? We??re all native English speakers aren??t we, what??s all this about sounding different?
Everyone knows that a guy from the states sounds different to a fellow from England. But, can we break it down? Can we state a |
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| Author: Bernard Morrison |
| Date of post: 2006-11-20 |
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| British English vs American English |
| The English language first came to America, when it was colonised by the British Empire in the late 16th century. Other parts of the world were also colonised by the British Empire, which by 1921 had dominion over 470 to 570 million people, which equated to |
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| Author: Peter Flinn |
| Date of post: 2007-02-06 |
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| British English vs. American English’ |
| ‘British English vs. American English’- the title itself suggests a battle or a contest where only winning matters. In many ways, this is exactly what it is. It is a silent struggle for domination that is mainly fought in the halls of academia where |
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| Author: Rudo Kupeta |
| Date of post: 2007-04-02 |
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