This week, I chose to use a vocabulary website http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/ which I used before to learn about the phrasal verbs. However, this time I used it to learn about the differences between the British English vocabulary and the American English vocabulary. This website shows the difference between those two English languages besides the Canadian language.
Four years ago, I thought that English is one language and it’s the same in all of the English native speakers’ countries. After I realized that there is a difference in the language from country to country, I thought that the difference was very simple and it was in a few words only. And because we deal with both British and American people, I had the curiosity when I saw the title in this website to search more deeply about those two English accents and learn more about the vocabulary that each one uses. I found more than 100 words that differ between the two main English accents such as (anywhere, anyplace), (bill, check) and I found many similar words between the American and the Canadian accents like cookie and hood.
Through this part in the website, I learned a lot of new vocabulary since I was searching for the meanings while I was looking for the difference between the accents. However, it was so confusing to try to memorize the words between the three accents since there were similar words in two accents but different from the third one and vise versa.
Saturday, 5 December 2009
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