Peculiarities of British and American variants in the English Language
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ow-minded and snobbish people in both countries for some time to come. But generally speaking, anybody who learns to speak and write the standard English of his own country, and to regard that of the other country as a legitimate variety with certain interesting differences, will have little trouble wherever he goes.studied the main peculiarities of British and American variants in the English Language we came to the conclusion that exist the following differences:differencesdifferences of American variant highly extensive on the strength of multiple borrowing from Spanish and Indian languages, what was not in British English.variant British variantметро undergroundmovies кинотеатр the cinemaмагазин storeтротуар pavementочередь queueфутбол footballпочтальон postmanканикулы holidayкукуруза maizeосень autumnclaim attention differences in writing some words in American and British variants of language.instance, following:variant British varianthonourtravellerploughdefencegaolcentreapologisedifferencesdifferences of American variant consist in following:
. In that events, when Britainians use Present Perfect, in Staffs can beused and Present Perfect, and Past Simple.
. Take a shower/a bath instead of have a shower/a bath.
. Shall is not used. In all persons is used by will.
. Needn't (do) usually is not used. Accustomed form -don't need to (do).
. After demand, insist, require etc should usually is NOT used. I demanded that he apologize (instead of I demanded that he should apologies in British variant).
. to/in THE hospital instead of to/in hospital in BrE.
. on the weekend/on weekend instead of at the weekend/at weekend.
. on a street instead of in a street.
. Different from or than instead of different to/from
. Write is used with to or without the pretext.
. Past participle of "got" is "gotten"
. To burn, to spoil and other verbs, which can be regular or irregular in the British variant, in the American variant ALWAYS regular.
. Past Perfect, as a rule, is not used completely.. English is the national language of England proper, the USA, Australia and some provinces of Canada. It was also at different times imposed on the inhabitants of the former and present British colonies and protectorates as well as other Britain- and US-dominated territories, where the population has always stuck to its own mother tongue.. British English, American English and Australian English are variants of the same language, because they serve all spheres of verbal communication. Their structural peculiarities, especially morphology, syntax and word-formation, as well as their word-stock and phonetic system are essentially the same. American and Australian standards are slight modifications of the norms accepted in the British Isles. The status of Canadian English has not yet been established.. The main lexical differences between the variants are caused by the lack of equivalent lexical units in one of them, divergences in the semantic structures of polysemantic words and peculiarities of usage of some words on different territories.. The British local dialects can be traced back to Old English dialects. Numerous and distinct, they are characterized by phonemic and structural peculiarities. The local dialects are being gradually replaced by regional variants of the literary language, i. e. by a literary standard with a proportion of local dialect features.. The so-called local dialects in the British Isles and in the USA are used only by the rural population and only for the purposes of oral communication. In both variants local distinctions are more marked in pronunciation, less conspicuous in vocabulary and insignificant in grammar.. Local variations in the USA are relatively small. What is called by tradition American dialects is closer in nature to regional variants of the national literary language.
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