What are the main differences between american english and british english?
What are the main differences between american english and british english?
Jack Perry
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Jordan Flores
water = wadder vs watta
Daniel Gonzalez
What?
Xavier Richardson
Apartment = flat
That's pretty much it
Kevin Hill
erb vs hurb
(Both herb)
Xavier Jackson
>water = wadder vs watta
water = wadder vs watta
Nathaniel Rivera
in words like water we flap the t so it sounds more like a d and the british drop the r.
Ethan Moore
he means the actual american english, spelling not phonetics
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
Dominic Kelly
shall/will
mom/mum
cookie/biscuit
Colton Powell
Shall is archaic.
What do the British call pop?
Matthew Bailey
>What do the British call pop?
fizzy drink
Sebastian Lopez
bathroom vs toilet
ass vs arse
nigger vs pajeet
Ryan Watson
>pop
off yourself
Mason Hernandez
Pronunciation and the placement of certain letters in words, like center and centre.
Elijah Torres
no u
Nathaniel Taylor
>sup buds
might as well call each other petal
Benjamin Smith
American has no letter u
Landon Diaz
Sht the fck p
Adrian Young
>he doesn't call his buds, buds
Brandon Thomas
Bud is short for buddy
Hudson Reed
Pop is the superior name.
Samuel Flores
Fries are chips and chips are crisps
Kevin Ross
yeah m8 thanks
i didn't know that, my little flower.
Logan Bennett
De rien
Dylan Hall
They have some weird ass way of pronouncing "schedule" that I can't even begin to convey in writing.
Connor Turner
sheh jew uhl
Brandon Perez
Blows my mind bro... meanwhile in burgerland its "sked-yule"
William Jones
SKEH JEW UHL
Gabriel Roberts
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.
Isaac Allen
sked jewel
Parker Cooper
Wander vs wo ah
Chase Sanders
That's an accent thing you stupid yanks
Nolan Martinez
>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.
Logan Carter
>sup mates
might as well call each other spouse
Brody Robinson
Most of it is just differences in anglisisng romance loanwords. But for some retarded reason yanks spell plough and draught as plow and draft.
Matthew Fisher
I ploughed ur mum m8
Carter Thompson
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.
Ian Bailey
southern english makes european girls wet
Cooper Martin
how will brits ever recover
Jason Bennett
>car (pron. corr)
Maybe in pissant backwards barbarian Slavland, but no one here says "corr".
Joseph Hall
As a Southerner, I can confirm. Especially in the UK, Italy and Oz.
Anthony Martinez
>pop
Andrew Davis
soda best girl
Julian Perry
America has simplified the language
Eli Allen
Kevin Torres
dropped the letter u in the harbor along with the tea
Joseph Green
Jack Adams
They would have forgiven you if you had just stolen it instead of wasting it all.
Luke Russell
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
Jack Parker
>pop
The perception of a southern accent is actually lack of education/being stupid