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AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITISH ENGLISH
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Many students want to know about the differences
between American English and British English. How did these
differences come about?There is no quick answer to this question.
At first the language in Britain and America was the same. In 1776
America became an independent country. After that, the language
slowly began to change. For a long time the language in America
stayed the same, while the language in England changed. For
example, 300 years ago the English talked about "fall". Today, most
British people talk about "autumn", but Americans still talk about
"fall". In the same way Americans still use the expression "I
guess" (meaning "I think"), just as the British did 300 years
ago.
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At the same time, British English and American
English started borrowing words from other languages, ending up
with different words. For example, the British took "typhoon" from
Chinese, while the Americans took "tornado" from
Spanish.
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In 1828 Noah
Webster published the first American dictionary. He wanted to make
American English different from British English, so he changed the
spelling of many words. That's why the words colour, centre and
traveler are spelt color, center and traveler in American English.
Except for these differences in spelling, written English more or
less the same in both British and American
English.
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most of the time people from the two countries do not have any
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