... tiếng Anh của người Anh (British English, B.E.) và tiếng Anh của người Mỹ có một ít điểm khác nhau. Và sau đây là một số thí dụ : British English or American English? bên A.E. theo ... hiện nhiều hơn và năm 1755 cụ Samuel Johnson soạn bộ Oxford Dictionary of English. Năm 1828, cụ Noah Webster hoàn thành bộ Webter’s Dictionary. Từ đó bộ ODE là nền tảng cho spelling của B.E. ... kỳ này gọi là Old English, kéo dài mãi đến thế kỷ thừ mười một khi người Pháp xâm chiếm nước Anh (The Norman Conquest). Thời kỳ thứ nhì này, người ta thường gọi là Middle English, lúc này...
... When you write the date in numbers British and AmericanEnglish differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07)....
... (thuốc ) “) của Anh.Người Anh dường như không sử dụng chữ administrate. Theo từ điểnOxford EnglishDictionary ( viết tắt : O.E.D ), chữ administrate là phó từcủa administer. Administer thường ... đương với chữ subject (thần dân, côngdân của Anh).Chúng ta thường thấy trên báo chí American citizen và British subject. Ngoài ra, chữ citizen ở Mỹ còn có ý nghĩa là resident,inhabitant (cư ... cơ cấu gọi là carpet-bagger government (chính quyềncủa bọn đầu cơ chính trị) The Oxford EnglishDictionary dẫn chứng, thời gian từ này bắt đầuđược sử dụng ở Mỹ sớm hơn ở Anh CARRY Bỏ hàng...
... OF AMERICAN ENGLISH The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American English. Although the Great Vowel Shift had assigned new values to the long vow-els, many British, ... linguistic resources of AmericanEnglish this Dictionary becomes acultural property book for all the American people.A century before Noah Webster organized his first American dictionary (1806), ... tlip is notan English word and do not have to go to a dictionary to discover that fact. Intuitiontells them that no English word can begin with tl But when faced with trin, English speakers—though...
... again.” Its.“There is a way to empower yourviii introduction*The Oxford English Dictionary, seeking to record all English words, says it covers morethan 500,000 words and phrases in its twenty ... verbalwrongs make a right is not advocatedhere. Nor is the cliché of English as “aliving language” dragged in to justifybad English. On the contrary, I do not hesitate todistinguish between ... ourproduct’s safety.”Life assurance is a term traditionallyused by British insurance companies. Lifeinsurance is the American term, notwith-standing the Equitable Life Assurance So-ciety...
... containing all the essentialssuccinctly. Noah Webster’s first general dictionary, 1806, was titled A Compen-dious Dictionary of the English Lan-guage. He meant that it was concise.When a lexicographer ... years or so.” The book was pub-lished in the United States by an American publisher for American read-ers, but the author is British and his dis-cussion of the future of the universe istaken ... any measurable ex-tent.The earliest use of billion quoted inThe Oxford EnglishDictionary was byJohn Locke, 1690. The dictionary saysthat billion, trillion, and quadrillionwere purposely formed...
... pronunciations differ. It ishi•er•o•glyph•ic in one dictionary, hi•ero•glyph•ic in another; tel•e•phonein the first dictionary, tele•phone in theother. One dictionary makes it gon•a•do•trop•ic, a second ... onat length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes,consonants, vowels, and double letters.And the American and British systemsvary. Words divided according to pro-nunciation in the former (knowl-edge,democ-racy) ... transla-tion is “I don’t have no money,” whichin English is considered ungrammatical;to make it grammatical, either scrap the“don’t” or change “no” to any.The English- speaking tradition is thata double...
... -ISEIn Britain the American -ize, the origi-nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise(after the modern French practice ofchanging the Greek -izo to -iser). For in-stance, the American realize ... Page 213Latin American, with no hyphen. Usedas an adjective, as in Latin -American country, the term takes a hyphen.2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH,MEXICAN, and CHICANOLatin(- )American used to ... Greek -izo to -iser). For in-stance, the American realize is spelled re-alise. The Oxford English Dictionary finds no good reason for -ise, “in opposi--ize ending 19702-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30...
... sayovercautious and reject “overly cau-tious.”The Random House Dictionary listsabout 1,500 over- words. The Oxford English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-words, many of which it prefers ... stresses way orgives the two words about equal stress.These are correct examples from TheOxford English Dictionary: “They weretied up and could noways appear”(1702). “I have lived a virgin and Inoway ... perfectlyproper, but it has been one of the mean-ings of over since the Middle Ages. TheOxford EnglishDictionary offers eightquotations, from the fourteenth centuryon, to illustrate that over...
... we.” See 10D.)Further examples are taken from abook about English words, a state’s taxform, and two news articles:For the dedicated dictionary browser a new edition is a great joy,but sometimes ... so on. It is obscure whetherthe editor who put the list into print was British and neglected to make the correc-tion for American readers or was Ameri-can and just did not know any better.The ... goes witheach verb, adjective, noun, or pronoun isa daunting task for the foreign student of English, sometimes for the nativespeaker too. The choice of prepositionoften depends on idiom,...
... (mainlynon-Indians—many American Indiangroups call themselves that), who foster“Native American as a synonym. Usersof that term exclude most native-bornAmericans and several indigenous peo-ples under the American ... eighties African -American caught on as a formal term. It has lessutility, covering only Americans; itwould not include, say, a black Con-golese. Nor would it include a natural-ized American who ... and weapons pro-duction.” In addition, American isillogically applied to only one item; any-way it is unnecessary in a story aboutbills in the American Congress. (Theseries errors 37904-R–Z_4...
... toward warmthmay go on or it may not.”An American general exhibited tauto-logical mastery. As secretary of state, headdressed the Organization of American States and imparted this intelligenceabout ... THAT, ALL THAT.THAT, ALL THAT. This is a British import of recent decades, an illogical col-loquialism that should dispel any notionthat the best English must come fromEngland. It is the ... common for longstretches of human history.” May onealso protest the lowering of standards of English usage and all that fuzziness?THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH;...