В чем отличие американского и британского английского?

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В чем отличие американского и британского английского?

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two truck breakdown vehicle
fooled me for a minute til I realized you meant towtruck

I would say the most striking to me are:
1) "ah" instead of R
2) epenthetic R before vowels, as in AmericaR is ...
(Both AmE and BrE have the epenthetic N as in an apple, altho I am hearing uneducated speech with a glottal stop instead.)

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Грамматика:
AE: I have a car
BE: I've got a car

и т.п. - куча мелких различий, в AE в основном упрощения существующих правил

Spelling:
AE: labeled
BE: labelled

и т.п. - за подробностями в учебники.
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Произношение
car Br -> ka:
AE ->car
fast BR -> fa:st
AE -> faest
tape Br taeip
AE teip
seconday stress in words like cemetery (Br ->cemetry, AE cemetEry)
secretary (Br secretry; AE secretAry) etc

+ отдельные слова
scedule Br ->shedule
AE -> skedule
laboratory Br -> labOratry
Ae ->lAbrotory
Грамматка
Br -> I've just seen him
AE I just saw him
BR where's Ann - she's just gone out
AE where's Ann - she just went out
AE BE
I'll see u I'll see you at the weelend
on the weekend
she was taken she was taken to hospital
to THE hospital

Слова
AE BE
the hood the bonnet (of the car)
the windshield the windscreen
the trunk the boot
two truck breakdown vehicle
highway,turnpike motorway
grade form/mark

etc
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