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Friday, 13 January 2017

Activity 2.3 English Varieties

1. What English varieties can you think of?

  • American, Jamaican, Indian English, British, Scottish,  Australian, New Zealand English, South African English, etc.

2. Provide a brief account of the main differencies between British and American English:

  •  British normally writes "realise", with the phoneme /s/ whilst American English speakers write "realize", with the voiced sibilant /z/.
  • Whereas in British we spell "travelled", Americans doesn't double the consonant, thus: "traveled".
  • As for the diphtongs, in British English we tend to write "colour" whereas an American would consistently write "color".
  • Similarly to the previous spelling differencies, in British we would write "centre" or "theatre" while in American they would stick to "center" or "theater" disregarding of the pronunciation.