cambridge dictionary british and american english
What are the differences between British English and American English? pptx
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... When you write the date in
numbers British and American English 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). ...
lorry
boot
vest
flannel
windscreen
postcode
zip
Notes:
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- When used to talk about roads and motorways. Someone I know took over 4 hours to complete a 25
minute drive, because he didn't ...
garbage
knapsack
sedan
report card
Scotch tape
stocks
free time
garters
panty hose
can
candy apple
bathroom
flashlight
pants
undershirt
rubber boots
windshield
zipper
rubber...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
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... by an
American publisher for American read-
ers, but the author is British and his dis-
cussion of the future of the universe is
taken from a lecture at the University of
Cambridge, England. Unless ... represented a thou-
sand million, trillion a thousand thou-
sand million, and so on. In the
nineteenth century, the United States
adopted the French system, and in 1948
France adopted the British system. ... dark,
and handsome,” leave out “both.”
BOUGH and BOW. See Homo-
phones.
Brackets. See Punctuation, 7.
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CONSENSUS. A question for two
critics and...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
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... a and droit. One newspaper divided
that word into “adr-” and “oit.”
The rules, and their exceptions, go on
at length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes,
consonants, vowels, and double letters.
And ... fantastic.” And a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives said
about its speaker, “He’s making fantastic
efforts on behalf of the American
people.”
Were they implying that talk of high
standards and ... See CRES-
CENDO.
DEER, plural. See Plurals and singu-
lars, 2C.
DEFAMATION. See LIBEL and
SLANDER.
DEFEND. See Verbs, 1C.
Defining clause. See THAT and
WHICH.
Dehumanization. A writer does not
consciously...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
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... memoranda.” It was a memorandum.
A participant in a television forum
said, “North drew up memoran-
das. . . .” They were memoranda or
memorandums.
Because memoranda is plural, “a
memoranda” and ... mean and the median are both
averages.
ME and I. See Pronouns, 10.
ME and MYSELF. See Pronouns,
3, 4.
Measures, quantities. See AMOUNT
and NUMBER; Collective nouns, 3;
FEWER and LESS; MANY and ... as in “small,
medium, and large sizes.” The last two
mediums resemble the Latin medium,
meaning middle, which English adopted.
MEDIAN. See MEAN (noun).
MEMORANDA and MEMO-
RANDUM. A U.S. senator...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
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... They would, for instance, say
overcautious and reject “overly cau-
tious.”
The Random House Dictionary lists
about 1,500 over- words. The Oxford
English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-
words, many ... something
offensive and no way it wouldn’t be
picked up, set aside and then repeated
just when it would hurt the most.
This is simpler and clearer:
He would say something offensive
and it would be ... stress.
These are correct examples from The
Oxford English Dictionary: “They were
tied up and could noways appear”
(1702). “I have lived a virgin and I
noway doubt I can live so still” (1875).
A...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
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... in place of
a noun. For instance, “Stand beside her
and guide her” substitutes for “Stand be-
side America and guide America” in a
famous song. Pronouns are handy de-
vices, enabling us to avoid ... restric-
304 prescribe and proscribe
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pletely: “Jack said Sam took the money.”
And “Fruit, trees, and flowers” are not
the same as “fruit trees and flowers.”
And it might ... (36) . . .
(13)” and so on. It is obscure whether
the 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...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
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... (energize and
enervate, hyper- and hypo-, and
sanction and sanctions);
DISINGENUOUS and
INGENUOUS; EMIGRATE and
IMMIGRATE; PRESCRIBE and
PROSCRIBE.
• Misunderstood terms. See
CREDITOR and DEBTOR; ... (1758–1843), who
changed the British -our and -re endings
(as in honour and centre) to -or and -er
(honor and center).
3. Principles
A. The best rule
The rules of spelling and their excep-
tions are ... may be, for example, prices of
$1,000 and $4,000; about 30,000 and 7
million speakers; 147 and 160 pounds;
first and sixth grades; Maine and
Florida; adagio and vivace—or more
subjective ones:
Chicken...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
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... one
also protest the lowering of standards of
English usage and all that fuzziness?
THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-
ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH; mix-up
of THAT and WHICH. 3. “THAT” in
place of ... not.”
An American general exhibited tauto-
logical mastery. As secretary of state, he
addressed the Organization of American
States and imparted this intelligence
about the Falkland Islands: “It ... to explore.
“Ambiguity” (not “grace”) sums it up.
THOSE and THEM. See THEM
and THOSE.
THOSE and THESE. See THESE
and THOSE.
THOU, THEE, and YE. See Pro-
nouns, 10A.
“THUNK.” See THINK, past partici-
ple.
THUS....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
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... people:
who and that. See WHO, THAT, and
WHICH.
Which has two possessive forms: of
which and whose. Whose applies both to
people and to things. See WHOSE, 1.
WHICH and THAT. See THAT and
WHICH.
WHICH and ... and BEST, WORSE and WORST.
WOULD and WILL. See Double
negative, 1; Subjunctive, 2, 3; Tense, 4.
WOULD HAVE, WOULD’VE,
and “WOULD OF.” See HAVE,
HAS, HAD, 2.
WRACK. See RACK and WRACK.
WREAK and ... winding their way.
WENT. See GONE and WENT.
WERE. See WAS and WERE; Sub-
junctive.
WHAT EVER and WHATEVER.
See (-)EVER.
WHEN AND IF. See UNLESS AND
UNTIL.
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pptx
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... doesn’t.
It agrees with all singular nouns and
with the pronouns he, she, and it
and other singular pronouns except I
and you. So “that [feeling] doesn’t
mean.” And there is an “idiot that
doesn’t know.” ... Joseph Priestley
was a scientist and the discoverer of oxy-
gen. He was also a philosopher, politi-
cian, and theologian, and in the 1760s
he wrote The Rudiments of English
Grammar. In clear prose ... of
multiplicity without “in droves.”
“DRUG” and DRAGGED. See
DRAGGED and “DRUG.”
DUAL and DUEL. See Homo-
phones.
DUE TO. When to use the phrase due
to and when not to use it can be confus-
ing,...
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The Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4 potx
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... entries:
AFFECT and EFFECT
ALL TOGETHER and ALTO-
GETHER (etc.)
BLOC and BLOCK
BORE, BORNE, and BORN
CAPITAL and CAPITOL
COMPLEMENT and COMPLI-
MENT
EXERCISE and EXORCISE
FAUN and FAWN
FAZE and PHASE
GRISLY, ... GRIZZLY, and GRIZZLED
HEROIN and HEROINE
INCIDENCE and INCIDENT
ITS and IT’S
LEAD (verb) and LED
LOATH and LOATHE
MARSHAL
NAVAL and NAVEL
PRINCIPAL and PRINCIPLE
Pronouns, 8.
Punctuation, 1B.
RACK and ... stimulus.
INSURANCE and ASSURANCE,
INSURE and ENSURE. See AS-
SURE, ENSURE, and INSURE, 1.
INTER- and INTRA- prefixes. See
Confusing pairs.
INTEREST, INTERESTED. See
DISINTERESTED and UNINTER-
ESTED.
INTERMINABLE....
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