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English spoken in the UK is often called "British English", whereas that spoken in the US is
sometimes known as "American English".
This lesson explains some words which display
differences between British English and American English in terms of
accent, pronunciation, stress and intonation.
In my list below, which I will talk you through,
each word is accompanied by the phonetics for the British English pronunciation.
I can't do it for the American pronunciation because the phonetics are different.
But I will try to say the word as it is spoken by Americans
so you can compare them.
I will put the list in the Youtube description as well,
so please use that.
I am British (or English).
An apostrophe (') marks the syllable which is stressed in British English:
Data /'deɪtə/
Garage /'gærɪʤ/
Adult /'ædɒlt/
Bernard (name) /'bɜ:nəd/
Address /ə'dres/
Premiere /'premi:'jeə(r)/
Oestrogens /'i:strəʤən/ vs estrogens
Aluminium /'ælu:'mɪni:jəm/ vs aluminium
Patronise /'pætrənaɪz/ vs patronize
Z z (letter) /'zed/
Remember that there are many words which are different
between British English and American English.
Those were some important ones but there are a lot more.
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