British English vs American English

Some differences between the British accent and North American accent
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Are you sure this water is pure?
The bar is quite far, we need a car.
The first year you learn a lot of words by heart.
There were four more birds this morning.
Last week I cut my ass on some glass in the bath, so I asked for plaster.
My new secretary is so stupid! She had to look up "inventory" in the dictionary!

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Education

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• British
• English
• accent
• North
• American
• Inglês
• britânico
• americano
• acento

[Jefgg]

There are several American accents. I have a thick New York accent. I barely pronounce my r's. It makes me sound like a moron. But when an Englishman does not pronounce his r's it sounds like Shakespeare.

[DixieManda]

You learn a lots of words?

[PeopleThatPlayGames]

I think a lot of americans take the english upper class to mean the majority of the population, i definitely dont talk that posh

[XPaigeX1234]

Wow Brits aren't THAT posh!!!! I'm not I'm from Manchester many of us barley say the T in water. Lol

[psychwardmovies]

One thing is for sure, Americans don't say 'plaster', we say bandage or band-aid.

[manidontgiveafuck]

@RobAllen21 nah, but we wouldn't say "a lot of words either." Most of us would say "you learned lots of words."

[rufus566]

Where I was born in America most of the people spoke like the Bah is Fah from the Cah. We also put R's on words that ended with H.

I have also never said "lots" in my life, but I assume a lot of Americans do say it that way.

Truth is, that there are 50 states in the Union and all 50 have different colloquialisms, slang and accent. Go 50 miles north of where I grew up and everything is in French, I just moved from a place in the south where everything was exclusively Spanish.

[RobAllen21]

The American says 'you learn a lots of words' rather than 'a lot of words' ... is that normal in the US?

[j0rdyb0y62]

people need to stop naimng accents after countreys, because northern island is british, scottish is british, whales is british, also you then have scouse brummies and goerdies etc , id call this this accent "the villlage idiot accent from down south"

[curryk40]

this was really stupid nobody talks like this normally

[SoLongGone1]

@1954seawolf that's just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Columbus was Italian.