In Dialects^x, American English^x

An apostrophe would be used if the author wants to indicate that the dialects are the American English's possessions. However, the author may be using American/British English as adjectives. In your sentence "This kind of sentences always bother me but..." is incorrect because kind is the...

I've just had lunch is an example of the Present Perfect, a tense used to connect past actions to the present. It is correct in this case, because it connects the past action of eating to the present state (being full) and the consequences (not wanting to eat any more).It is not so common in many...

CalifJim wrote: You realize, I'm sure, that the g in final ng is silent. It is only a marker to change the usual sound of 'n' to a velar nasal sound instead. It's farther back than your Italian gn but in the same general family of sounds. I know, it thought it was like the N in "anche"...

Well... never forget that I use American English. And I've been frequently surprised by some of the differences between the various dialects. But that's how *I* would use credits as a countable noun.

Anonymous wrote:>> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds like /ft/ <<Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the pronunciation in North American English and English English dialects of the /t/...

>> Only one exception, after (the attachment was from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary) after the sounds /ft/ <<Nope. There is no difference where it comes to the pronunciation in North American English and English English dialects of the /t/ in the word "after".

Thethenothere123 wrote:I feel as though the AmE vs. BrE distinction is largely exaggerated by non-native English speakers.Like a previous poster commented, your focus should be on using proper grammar and working to improve your pronunciation rather than worrying about the minor differences in...

I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American dialects have some phonemic vowel distinctions...

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...

>> My goodness, British accents must be so different... and strange too! I heard some that seemed German or another language, not English! <<Well, I think it's simply because there are so many of them, and they are very different, as opposed to North American English (especially...