british american english dictionary online
American English vs British English
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... (thuốc ) “) của Anh.
Người Anh dường như không sử dụng chữ administrate. Theo từ điển
Oxford English Dictionary ( viết tắt : O.E.D ), chữ administrate là phó từ
của administer. Administer thường ... đương với chữ subject (thần dân, công
dân của Anh).Chúng ta thường thấy trên báo chí American citizen và
British subject. Ngoài ra, chữ citizen ở Mỹ còn có ý nghĩa là resident,
inhabitant (cư ... cơ cấu gọi là carpet-bagger government (chính quyền
của bọn đầu cơ chính trị)
The Oxford English Dictionary dẫn chứng, thời gian từ này bắt đầu
được sử dụng ở Mỹ sớm hơn ở Anh
CARRY
Bỏ hàng...
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British English or American English? docx
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10/03/2014, 19:20
... tiếng Anh của người Anh (British
English, B.E.) và tiếng Anh của người Mỹ có một ít điểm khác nhau. Và sau đây là
một số thí dụ :
British English or American
English?
bên A.E. theo ... hiện nhiều hơn và năm 1755 cụ Samuel Johnson soạn bộ
Oxford Dictionary of English. Năm 1828, cụ Noah Webster hoàn thành bộ
Webter’s Dictionary. Từ đó bộ ODE là nền tảng cho spelling của B.E. ... kỳ này gọi là Old English,
kéo dài mãi đến thế kỷ thừ mười một khi người Pháp xâm chiếm nước Anh (The
Norman Conquest).
Thời kỳ thứ nhì này, người ta thường gọi là Middle English, lúc này...
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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... OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
The fluid structure of Early Modern English underlies the formation of American
English. Although the Great Vowel Shift had assigned new values to the long vow-
els, many British, ... linguistic resources of American English this Dictionary becomes a
cultural property book for all the American people.
A century before Noah Webster organized his first American dictionary
(1806), ... tlip is not
an English word and do not have to go to a dictionary to discover that fact. Intuition
tells them that no English word can begin with tl But when faced with trin, English
speakers—though...
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What are the differences between British English and American English? pptx
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27/07/2014, 09:21
... When you write the date in
numbers British and American English differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would
write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07)....
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_2 ppsx
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11/08/2014, 18:21
... containing all the essentials
succinctly. Noah Webster’s first general
dictionary, 1806, was titled A Compen-
dious Dictionary of the English Lan-
guage. He meant that it was concise.
When a lexicographer ... years or so.” The book was pub-
lished in the United States by an
American publisher for American read-
ers, but the author is British and his dis-
cussion of the future of the universe is
taken ... any measurable ex-
tent.
The earliest use of billion quoted in
The Oxford English Dictionary was by
John Locke, 1690. The dictionary says
that billion, trillion, and quadrillion
were purposely formed...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_3 pps
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... pronunciations differ. It is
hi•er•o•glyph•ic in one dictionary,
hi•ero•glyph•ic in another; tel•e•phone
in the first dictionary, tele•phone in the
other. One dictionary makes it gon•
a•do•trop•ic, a second ... on
at length, dealing with prefixes, suffixes,
consonants, vowels, and double letters.
And the American and British systems
vary. Words divided according to pro-
nunciation in the former (knowl-edge,
democ-racy) ... transla-
tion is “I don’t have no money,” which
in English is considered ungrammatical;
to make it grammatical, either scrap the
“don’t” or change “no” to any.
The English- speaking tradition is that
a double...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5 potx
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... -ISE
In Britain the American -ize, the origi-
nal British spelling, usually is spelled -ise
(after the modern French practice of
changing the Greek -izo to -iser). For in-
stance, the American realize ... Page 213
Latin American, with no hyphen. Used
as an adjective, as in Latin -American
country, the term takes a hyphen.
2. LATINO, HISPANIC, SPANISH,
MEXICAN, and CHICANO
Latin(- )American used to ... Greek -izo to -iser). For in-
stance, the American realize is spelled re-
alise. The Oxford English Dictionary
finds no good reason for -ise, “in opposi-
-ize ending 197
02-F–L_4 10/22/02 10:30...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_6 pps
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11/08/2014, 18:21
... say
overcautious and reject “overly cau-
tious.”
The Random House Dictionary lists
about 1,500 over- words. The Oxford
English Dictionary has 83 pages of over-
words, many of which it prefers ... stresses way or
gives the two words about equal stress.
These are correct examples from The
Oxford English Dictionary: “They were
tied up and could noways appear”
(1702). “I have lived a virgin and I
noway ... perfectly
proper, but it has been one of the mean-
ings of over since the Middle Ages. The
Oxford English Dictionary offers eight
quotations, from the fourteenth century
on, to illustrate that over...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_7 docx
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11/08/2014, 18:21
... we.” See 10D.)
Further examples are taken from a
book about English words, a state’s tax
form, and two news articles:
For the dedicated dictionary
browser a new edition is a great joy,
but sometimes ... so on. It is obscure whether
the editor who put the list into print was
British and neglected to make the correc-
tion for American readers or was Ameri-
can and just did not know any better.
The ... goes with
each verb, adjective, noun, or pronoun is
a daunting task for the foreign student of
English, sometimes for the native
speaker too. The choice of preposition
often depends on idiom,...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_8 docx
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... (mainly
non-Indians—many American Indian
groups call themselves that), who foster
“Native American as a synonym. Users
of that term exclude most native-born
Americans and several indigenous peo-
ples under the American ... eighties African -American
caught on as a formal term. It has less
utility, covering only Americans; it
would not include, say, a black Con-
golese. Nor would it include a natural-
ized American who ... and weapons pro-
duction.” In addition, American is
illogically applied to only one item; any-
way it is unnecessary in a story about
bills in the American Congress. (The
series errors 379
04-R–Z_4...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_9 doc
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11/08/2014, 18:21
... toward warmth
may go on or it may not.”
An American general exhibited tauto-
logical mastery. As secretary of state, he
addressed the Organization of American
States and imparted this intelligence
about ... THAT, ALL THAT.
THAT, ALL THAT. This is a British
import of recent decades, an illogical col-
loquialism that should dispel any notion
that the best English must come from
England. It is the ... common for long
stretches of human history.” May one
also protest the lowering of standards of
English usage and all that fuzziness?
THAT and WHICH. 1. The differ-
ence. 2. Indiscriminate WHICH;...
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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_10 ppt
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... 457
Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations
Dictionary, Julie E. Towell and Helen
E. Sheppard, Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1988.
The American Heritage Dictionary of
the English Language, 1st ed.,
William ... 1972.
The Compact Edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary, 2 vol., Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press,
1971.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Cur-
rent English, 6th ed., J. B. Sykes, Ox-
ford, ... the
English Language, 2 vol., Essex,
Conn.: Verbatim, copyright
1931–1935 (1978 printing).
Dictionary of American Underworld
Lingo, Hyman E. Goldin, New York:
Twayne Publishers, 1950.
A Dictionary...
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