American and British English pronunciation differences.docx

American and British English pronunciation differences Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into: ? differences in accent (. phoneme inventory and realisation ). See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English speakers . ? differences in the pronunciation of individual words in the lexicon (. phoneme distribution ). In this article, transcriptions use Received Pronunciation (RP) to represent BrE and General American (GAm) and to represent AmE. In the following discussion ? superscript A2 after a word indicates that the BrE pronunciation of the word mon variant in AmE. ? superscript B2 after a word indicates that the AmE pronunciation of the word mon variant in BrE. ? superscript A1 after a word indicates that the pronunciation given as BrE is also the mon variant in AmE. ? superscript B1 after a word indicates that the pronunciation given as AmE is also the mon variant in BrE. Contents [ hide ] ?1 Stress o French stress o Verbs ending in– ate o Miscellaneous stress ?2 Affixes o -ary,-ery,-ory,-mony,-bury,-berry o -ile o -ine ?3 Weak forms ?4 Miscellaneous pronunciation differences o Single differences o Multiple differences ?5 Notes ?6 References Stress [ edit ] Subscript a or b means that the relevant unstressed vowel is also reduced to/?/ or/?/ in AmE or BrE, respectively. French stress [ edit ] For many loanwords from French where AmE has kept the original French final-syllable stress, BrE stresses an earlier syllable. French loanwors that differs in stress only are listed below. BrE AmE words with relevant syllable stressed in each dialect 1st last ballet A2, [1] barrage a, [nb 1] [2] baton a, [3] beret a, [4] bidet a, [5] blas é, [6] brevet ab A2, [7] brochure b B2* [nb 2], [8] buffet a, [nb 3] [9] caf é A2[ citation