美式英式英语的不同.doc

Can you tell the difference between British and American English? Check out these words, then tell us which variety of English you tend to use by leaving ment below. Words British - American 1. Pavement – sidewalk 2. Rubbish – trash 3. Football – er 4. Biscuit – cookie 5. Sweets – candy 6. Tube – subway 7. Full stop – period 8. Autumn - fall 9. Flat – apartment 10. Lift – elevator 11. Chips – fries 12. Petrol – Gas 13. Motorway – highway 14. Jam – jelly 15. Cinema – movie theatre 16. Trousers – pants 17. Car park – parking lot 18. Jumper – sweater 19. Holiday – vacation 20. Post code – zip code Discuss Over the past 400 years, the form of the language used in the United States – and that used in the United Kingdom and the rest of the British Isles have diverged in many ways, leading to the dialects monly referred to as American English and British English. Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, and so on. A small number of words