Tatyana Suprun,

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Americanisms in British English

• Tatyana Suprun,
• School 17
• Cherkassy

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• We have really everything in common with America
  nowadays, except, of course, language
• Oscar Wilde
• The Canterville
  Ghost

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• The American language as a variety of English
  started to develop in the XVII century, thanks
  to loanwords and consequently to the development
  of American culture.

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• I think this work is of current importance now
  since the British English language changes
  constantly, borrowing words from other languages,
  including American English.

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British American spelling
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Americans have a tendency to simplify the
pronunciation spelling of English words,
according to their needs comfort, while the
British tend to pronounce write according to
the rules.
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British American -our
-or

• Humour
• Favour
• Colour
• Neighbour

• Humor
• Favor
• Color
• Neighbor

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American er at word
ending is sometimes equivalent to re.

• British
• Theatre
• Centre
• Metre

American Theater Center Meter
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Grammatical differences between British
American English
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• Grammatical differences between British
  American English are minimal. Perhaps the main
  one is the American use of the past tense where
  British English would use the present perfect
  tense.

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• American British

Have you collected your ticket yet?
Did you collect your ticket yet?
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• Americans say,
• Do you have?
• where many
• British people
• would say
• Have you got?

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There are a few differences in the use of
prepositions

• American
• Life in Ukraine is different than life in
  America.
• I meet with my friends every weekend.

• British
• Life in Ukraine is different from life in
  America.
• I meet my friends every weekend.

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Such words as gotta wanna are purely of
American English. Americans tend to simplify
British grammar rules.

• British
• I want to go to the theatre.

• American
• I wanna go to the theater.

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Lexical differencesbetween British American
English
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British flat pub lavatory tin biscuit wardrobe l
ift underground cab holiday

• American
• apartment
• bar
• bathroom
• can
• cookie
• dresser
• elevator
• subway
• taxi
• vacation

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Grammatical difference. Grammatical differences
of American variant consist in following 1.In
that events, when Britainians use Present
Perfect, in States can be used Present Perfect or
Past Simple. 2.Take a shower/a bath instead of
have a shower/a bath. 3.Shall is not used. In all
persons is used by will. 4.Needn't (do) usually
is not used. Accustomed form -don't need to
(do). 5.After demand, insist, require etc should
usually is NOT used. I demanded that he apologize
(instead of I demanded that he should apologise
in British variant).

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6. to/in THE hospital instead of to/in hospital
in BrE. 7. on the weekend/on weekend instead of
at the weekend/at weekend. 8. on a street instead
of in a street. 9. Different from or than instead
of different to/from 10. Write is used with to or
without the pretext. 11. Past participle of "got"
is "gotten" 12. To burn, to spoil and other
verbs, which can be regular or irregular in
the British variant, in the American variant
ALWAYS regular. 13. Past Perfect, as a
rule, is not used completely.
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• Finally, a great deal of common English
  colloquialisms are American in origin OK, cool,
  hot.

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