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Feb 8, 2018 · It turns out that Brits in the 1600s, like modern-day Americans, largely pronounced all their Rs. Marisa Brook researches language variation at Canada’s University of Victoria. “Many of those ...
For the UK, the English language is a critical component of trust building and, in turn, trade and prosperity. To maintain the ‘English Effect’ we must continue to nurture and invest in English for the benefits, opportunities and value it brings to our trade, our creative industries, our culture and our people. If we do not,
- American English Is Actually Older
- British English Is More Like French
- American Spelling Was Invented as A Form of Protest
- American English Likes to Drop Words Completely
- The Two Types of English Have Borrowed Words from Different Languages
This isn’t something you should tell to a British person, because we’re the country that gave birth to America as we know it today – but this fact really is true. When the first settlers set sail from England to America, they took with them the common tongue at the time, which was based on something called rhotic speech (when you pronounce the r so...
French has influenced English in more ways than English speakers would care to admit. The first time was when William the Conqueror invaded Britain in the 11th Century (more on the history of English here), bringing Norman French with him and making it the high language – used in schools, courts, universities, and the upper classes. It didn’t stick...
The American and British dictionaries are very different, because they were compiled by two very different authors with two very different perspectives on language: the UK’s dictionary was compiled by scholars from London (not Oxford, for some reason) who wanted to just collect all known English words, while the American one was made by a lexicogra...
Sometimes there are differences in American English that make no sense to speakers of British English – like when Americans remove entire verbs from a sentence. When an American person tells someone they’ll write a letter to them, they say “I’ll write them”. When you ask an American if they want to go shopping, they might say “I could”. In the UK t...
It’s clear that British and American English have evolved differently when you consider the cultural influences that have affected each independently, and how they’ve borrowed words from those languages. For some reason this is very common with words for food: examples include coriander (British, derived from French) and cilantro (American, derived...
Jan 19, 2023 · Spanish is becoming Britain's most popular foreign language. ©. British Council. 'Everyone speaks English' - is that what most British people think? Or do we harbour secret regrets about our monolingualism? Vicky Gough looks at the results of the British Council’s recent UK survey and finds a desire to learn.
Nov 16, 2023 · Preply Blog. English tips & resources. How to speak with a British accent: learn vocabulary, slang & tips. Here’s what you need to know to speak English just like the English do, from common slang terms to grammar rules and pronunciation. Matteo Crepaldi Updated November 16, 2023 19 min read. Ah British English!
1. More accents per square mile than anywhere else in the English-speaking world. There’s one point that frequently gets raised as a disadvantage of studying English in the UK, and that’s the accents.
Dec 5, 2022 · William Barton/Shutterstock. 2021 census shows English decreasing as main language but masks England and Wales’ true diversity. Published: December 5, 2022 8:44am EST. The latest release of...
