Does anyone ever get confused between British English and American English?
As I am from Britain I pronounce things differently to American pronunciation. Does anyone ever just get plain confused over it? Its interesting to find out. Some of my none native English speaking friends find it very hard to understand!
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The confusion is usually over spelling - it is my experience that american spelling leaves out the 'u' in lots of words such as colour and color, favourite and favorite. Many English tend to use American spelling as I guess it is easier.
The same words have different meanings depending on whether you are using American or English. For instance Fanny is quite a normal word in American but in English it is offensive to some people (referring to the female genitalia).
So I guess the answer to the question is to be careful of the context as well as spelling of some words.
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Hi , every nation has its idiomatic phrases and accents. However once you get past these, there's not much difference!
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me.. i always confused with the alphabet Z. British called Z as ZACK but American called Z as Zee.
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There may be a sort of confusion for non native speakers,but I thing they aren´t much different-the dialects are different.I like US english.
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