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Results tagged with transatlantic-differences
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Differences between how English is used on one side of the Atlantic compared with on the other side; specifically, the difference between Canadian and American English on one side and Irish and British English on the other.
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Are "traitor" and "trader" pronounced the same?
In American (but not British) English, /t/ and /d/ following a stressed vowel and preceding an unstressed one are normally neutralized to a flap [ɾ] sound.
There are a lot of pairs that are neutraliz …
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punctuation: chicken-fried steak
In its homeland of the American South, to chicken-fry is a verb, meaning to batter and deep-fry some chunk of beef (called a "steak" by convention, but usually pounded to reduce toughness).
The name c …
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"I've gotten better-looking as I get older" When did "gotten" re-enter the BrEng vernacular?
Gotten is not slang in the US.
Gotten is the normal past participle of get, for certain uses of get; and got is the normal past participle, for other uses of get. There are an awful lot of idioms an …
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