美式英语、英式英语大比拼
AMERICAN USAGE BRITISH USAGE
DIFFERENT WORDS - SAME MEANING
1. Elevator
2. Trunk (of a car)
3. Subway
4. Scotch
5. Period
6. Cookie
7. Gas/Gasoline
8. Kid(s)
9. Cell phone
10. Sidewalk
11. Soccer
12. Football
13. Fall (the season, not the action)
14. Vacation
15. School terminology:
a. Semester - there are two in a year, allowing for a break over Christmas and the new year.
b. Freshman - a student in the first year of high school or university.
c. Sophomore - a student in the second year.
d. Junior - a third year student, or a student in the year before the final year of university or high school.
e. Senior - a student in their last year.
f. High School - secondary education
g. Public school - state run
h. Private School - private
SAME WORD - DIFFERENT MEANING
1. Fag - a derogatory word for a homosexual man
2. Period - a full stop, (also a length of time or the hour-long lessons into which the school day is divided - these meanings apply in British English too).
3. To table (something) - to put an issue or problem aside for later, usually because it's too difficult to deal with.
4. Tea - the drink, not a meal.
SPELLING
Basically the Americans like to make it as simple as possible - it doesn't take much imagination to figure out why.
· "ER" - e.g. center, theater, meter
·"L" - e.g. jewelry, traveling, marvelous, councilor
· "Z not S" - e.g. symbolize, modernize, urbanization, organizer
·"O not OU" - e.g. neighbor, honor, favorite, color, harbor
·"M not MME" "N not NNE" - e.g. program, ton
1. tire
2. pickax
3. defens