VL5a

Question 1

Differences:
Spelling

Answer 1

BrE:
Re - centre
Our - favour
Ll - traveller
Is - organise
Dialogue, cheque

AmE:
Er - center
Or - favor
L - traveler
Iz - organize
Dialog, check

Question 2

Differences
Consonants

Answer 2

BrE:
- rhoticity (postvocalic /r/ silent, in isolation pronounced)
- voiceless dental stop /t/ occasionally realised as glottal stop
- /l/ = clear, palatal (lead) or dark, velar allophone (feel)

AmE:
- very rhotic
- flapping of /t/
- velar /l/ in all positions
- contrast between /w/ and /w/ (weather vs. Whether)

Question 3

Differences
Vowels

Answer 3

BrE:
- short back mid vowel (not)
- JUU in New
- broad aa in class

AmE:
- corresponding words have long vowel
- uu in new

Question 4

Differences
Vocabulary

Answer 4

Misleading

Question 5

Grammar differences : main-verb syntax

Answer 5

American: more likely: „Do you have the time?“

British: „Have you got the time?“

Question 6

Grammar differences: gotten

Answer 6

AmE: WHos got the letter

BrE: Who’s got the letter?

Question 7

The rules require that the report be published in the same year.

Answer 7

• AmE, mandative subjunctive more frequent

Question 8

Have you learned any foreign language?
- Yes, I have

Answer 8

American, because pre-predicate do largely absent, in British more frequent

Question 9

He just went out of the door.

Answer 9

American, because preference for past tense over present perfect
BrE: He just gone out of the door.

Question 10

Grammar differences:
indefinite pronoun one

Answer 10

AmE: One should not introduce himself by pointing out his superiority.

BrE: one should not introduce oneself by pointing out…

Question 11

Grammar: subject-verb concord

Answer 11

AmE: American Airlines is on strike.
BrE: Easy Jet are on strike.

Question 12

Grammar: Verb-complementation patterns

Answer 12

Both: That’ll stop you FROM asking this silly question again.

BrE: That’ll stop you asking this silly question again.