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Some people says that US and UK accents are totally different. Though, I dont find any relevant difference. Can anyone help me resolving my confussion? It really depends on what "totally" different is. And it again depends on what sort of accents you are looking at. For general discussion let...

Well, after all the discussions so far, I just would like to add on ething here. The 'r' is not pronounced for certain when it is in the 'end' of a word and certainly not when it is in the middle of a word and follows a vowel. So, the word 'world' is pronounced as 'wold'. Similarly, some more...

The verb "get" came from the Old North "geta" and the verb inflected like; geta - gat - getten. The past participle "getten" or "gotten" (a new variant of "getten" generated by vowel shift) had been used down to the 16th century. However, during the 17th century, the past tense form "got" (which...

Personally, I say GZ for all three. As for the prefix "ex-": "ex-" followed by a consonant (other than silent 'h'): eks Exceptions: exile, exit!!! (coincidence?) (But these can also be pronounced according to the 'rules' above.) This is American English, by the way. British English may...

In American English the endings -ing and -ed are added directly to words like 'travel' and 'worship' without doubling the final consonant. The final consonant is doubled before adding the ending in British English. American dictionaries often give both variants (undoubled first) since the user...