Read the words below. Mind the place of primary and secondary stress. GenAm
'apple"souce
'elsewhere
'midday
'peanut "butter
'savings "bank
'apple "pie
'other"wise
'out"fit
RP
"apple'souce
"else'where
"mid'day
"peanut 'butter
'savings bank
"apple 'pie
'otherwise
"out'fit
Exercise 10
Read the place names below. Mind a single primary stress in RP and a primary and a tertiary stress in GenAm.
RP
'Birmingham
'Bloombury
'Buckingham
'Dartmoor
'Moorgate
GenAm
'Birming"ham
'Bloom"bury
'Bucking"ham
'Dart"moor
'Moor"gate
Exercise 11
Read the words according to the GenAm standard.
not, crop, dock, nod, father, palm, mister, sister, Webster, farm, bird, leave, let, late, berry, merry, very, Betty, city, certainly, which, what, when, due, new, suit, excursion, version, Persia, man, name, noun, national.
Exercise 12
Read the words below. Mind the stress differences in RP and GenAm.
RP
dictionary
February
ordinary
category
territory
cemetery
monastery
matrimony
testimony
necessary
GenAm
dictionary
February
ordinary
category
territory
cemetery
monastery
matrimony
testimony
necessary
Exercise 13
Give gender neutral terms:
chairman
clergyman
congressman
fireman
foreman
mailman
mankind
manpower
policeman
salesman
to man
weatherman
workman
Exercise 14
Read the words they are read in GenAm.
address
adult
Asia
cigarette
clerk
combat (v)
data
herb
leisure
neither
nephew
research
tomato
wrath
Exercise 15
Give American spelling of the following British words:
arbour
armour
candour
colour
favour
harbour
honour
humour
labour
odour
parlour
vigour
defence
offence
licence
practice
pretence
centre
fibre
luster
metre
theatre
metre
macabre
Exercise 16
Give British spelling of the following American words:
impanel
incase
incrust
infold
acknowledgement
judgment
lodgment
esthetic
encyclopedia
fetus
maneuver
prolog
monolog
dialog
café
entree
Exercise 17
Lexical differences between British and American English are numerous enough and may be confusing enough that mass market books, especially those meant for younger readers, are often revised before publication in the “other” market. The following lexical differences between the UK and US editions of four Harry Potter books were compiled. Distribute the following words into two columns those used in the UK edition and those used in the US edition:
dustbin – trashcan
motorcycle – motorbike
stove – cooker
roundabout – carousel
sellotape – scotch tape
VCR – video recorder
sweater – jumper
ice lolly – ice pop
comprehensive school – public school
mail slot – letter-box
vacationing – holidaying
motorway – highway
multilevel parking garage – multi-storey car park
soccer – football
trolley – cart
sneakers – trainers
lining up – queuing
jacket potato – baked potato
sweet – candy
locker room – changing room
mad – crazy
reporter – newsreader
line – queue
clapping them – applauding them
two weeks – fortnight
holiday – vacation
nurse – matron
an excellent form – in excellent form
cookies – biscuits
Exercise 18
Distribute these words and word combinations into two columns: those pertaining to British English and those pertaining to American English.
1. airplane - aeroplane
2. block of flats - apartment house/building
3. dialing code - area code
4. baby carriage - pram, perambulator
5. cashpoint - ATM (automated teller machine)
6. backpack/backbag - rucksack
7. baked potato - jacket potato (cooked without removing the skin)
8. ring road, circular road (a road circling a city) - belt way
9. braid - plait (hair style)
10. bus - coach (for journey between towns, single decker; bus = double-decker)
11. engaged tone - busy signal
12. sweet - candy
13. carriage (railway) - car (railway)
14. carousel - merry-go-round
15. trolley (shopping), cart
16. cell phone - mobile phone
17. checkers - draughts (board game)
18. current account (banking) - checking account
19. reverse charge call (telephone) - collect call
20. condominium, condo (individually owned) - block of flats
21. biscuit - cookie
22. sweet corn, maize - corn
23. town centre - downtown
24. driver’s license - driving licence
25. drug store - pharmacy, chemists
26. elevator – lift
27. rubber - eraser
28. autumn - fall
29. rubbish - garbage, trash
30. garbage can - dust bin
31. ground meat - minced meat
32. crossroads - intersection
33. socket /connector for phone/ - jack
34. kindergarten - nursery
35. surname - last name
36. liquor - spirits (whisky, brandy, vodka)
37. lost and found - lost property
38. semi skimmed milk - low fat milk
39. trousers - pants
40. parking lot - car park
41. penitentiary - prison
42. state school - public school
Exercise 19