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1、DifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishAbstract:BritishEnglishandAmericanEnglisharethetwomostimportantvariantsoftheEnglishlanguage.Theyinfluenceeachotherandaremutuallycomplementary.Duetothehistorical,political,culturalandenvironmentalfactors,thetwolanguagevariationshavesomedifferenc
2、esinvariousaspects.Thesevarietiesmayberegionalornational.TounderstandthedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishandtograsptheirrulesareveryimportant.Thispaperwilldescribethedifferencesinthefollowingaspects:pronunciation,spelling,vocabulary,grammar,andusage.Keywords:BritishEnglish,Ame
3、ricanEnglishlanguage,differences,varieties.I.IntroductionNowadays,Englishispopulararoundtheworld,whichhasexperiencedgreatchangesduringalongtimeofAmericancolonization,EnglishhasbeenthelanguageoftheUnitedStates.Fromthenon,Englishlanguageweregroupedintotwomajorkinds,BritishEnglishandAmericanEngli
4、sh,whichhavetheirowncharacteristics.Astimethetimegoes,Americabeginstakepartininternationalaffairs.Especially,AmericaplaysaimportantroleininternationalstagefromSecondWorldWartonow.Recent20years,AmericanEnglishdevelopsquicklyinpolitics,economy,culture,educationandsoon.SoAmericanEnglishdevelopsra
5、pidly,andisdiscussedandstudiedinworld.Inmodernsociety,somepeoplethinklearningAmericanEnglishisfashionable,buttheconceptofdifferencesmustnotbetakentoofar,becauseBritishEnglishandAmericanwillbetwomajorvarietiesofonelanguage,nottwodifferentlanguages,withthedevelopmentofmodernscience,technology,ma
6、ssmedia,thedifferencesbetweenthesetwonationsarebecomingsmaller.Inpractice,thetendencyistowardsbetterunderstandingbetweenthepeopleofthetwocountries.InordertohelptheEnglishlearnersbetterunderstandthedifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish,thispapertriestoanalysethemaindifferencesbetwe
7、enBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglishinpronunciation,spelling,vocabulary,grammar,andusage.II.pronunciationdifferences:Thereareanumberofeasy-to-heardifferencesinthewaythatEnglishispronouncedbyBritishandAmericanspeakers.Herewewilllookatthefo
