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Image credits: chiwithaC To classify Great British Memes as a phenomenon would be to do it a slight disservice. It is a digital force of nature. The odds are that its featured content has graced ...
Several pronunciation patterns contrast American and British English accents. The following lists a few common ones. Most American accents are rhotic, preserving the historical /r/ phoneme in all contexts, while most British accents of England and Wales are non-rhotic, only preserving this sound before vowels but dropping it in all other contexts; thus, farmer rhymes with llama for Brits but ...
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British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings waffle (v.) to speak to no purpose; ramble A type of pancake with a pattern of square dents in it, made in a waffle iron. (v.) to equivocate, waver, speak evasively wagon: railway vehicle for transporting goods (US: freight car)
British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings faculty division of a university, dealing with a specific group of disciplines (e.g. faculty of arts) academic staff of a school, college or university fag cigarette (slang) *
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
American English: AuE Australian English: BahE Bahamian English: BarE Barbadian English: CaE Canadian English: CIE Channel Island English: EnE English English: FiE Fiji English: InE Indian English: IrE Irish English: JSE Jamaican English: NZE New Zealand English: PaE Palauan English: ScE Scottish English: SIE Solomon Islands English: SAE South ...
Words such as demagogue, pedagogue, synagogue, from the Greek noun ἀγωγός agōgos ("guide"), are seldom used without -ue even in American English. Both British and American English use the spelling -gue with a silent -ue for certain words that are not part of the -ogue set, such as tongue, plague, vague, and league.