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Hi Liveinsea, No authorities control the English language. There are standard varietes of spoken British and American English. The standard accent of British English is often referred to as 'Received Pronunciation' (RP), although this term may be slightly misleading and perhaps a bit outdated....

In American English, if a female wants to refer to her female friends, she often says something like "I'm going out to dinner with a couple girlfriends." If a male wants to refer to his female romantic partner, he will say "I'm going to dinner with my girlfriend to night." There's no difference...

I think the question for this topic was phrased wrong. You should change it to: English English VS. American English It would help you understand the answer better "american english" is such a peculiar phrase, a complete paradox in so many ways. In any case there is not much difference...

Hi David,here you can find some stuff about American English. Vowels, consonants, lots of stuff...http://evaeaston.com/pr/home.htmlOn that website there's also a link to this page, where the states are pronounced.http://evaeaston.com/pr/states.htmlIf you need to know how to pronounce a word in...

You say you are learning American English - if so, I would ignore any pronunciation in a dictionary originating in the UK and stick with the Americans - but of course MW does make it more difficult. Since it seems to be a minority, go with the others!Basil - in the UK is is baIn the US it is more...

American English comes mostly from British English but long before Received Pronunciation. In British English, we often hear 'bottle' as 'bo - ul' with no indication that any 't' existed in the word. This is a common feature of London accents, especially cockney.

Noah Webster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster) had a huge influence on american english. He is responsible for many of the differences in spelling. Also, after the revolutionary war in 1776, many americans were only too happy to differentiate themselves from Britain by using different...

Titithi wrote:I agree with you: learning both is useful. In my country,we have learned British English and we should explain why the pronunciation of this word can pronounce in different other way or why people use "will" instead of "shall". Today , our program is changed into American English,...

1) The background of the speaker can effect pronunciation and also lexicon. 2) Standard English, or any standard language is one in which the norms of usage have been agreed on and have been codified, eg in dictionaries. Countries may have different varieties of English, for example, American...