英語の英米差,とくに綴字の英米差は,授業で自由レポートなどを課すと人気のある話題である.以下のような対照表が示されることが多い.
アメリカ英語 | イギリス英語 |
---|---|
color, humor | colour, humour |
center, liter | centre, litre |
defense, offense | defence, offence |
traveler, traveled | traveller, travelled |
ameba, anesthetic | amoeba, anaesthetic |
On the whole, Americans, like the British, have been conservative in their treatment of spelling, and the notion that American spelling is radical and revolutionary seems indeed to be mainly a survival from eighteenth and early nineteenth century political feeling. (Vol. 1, 328)
・Krapp, George Philip. English Language in America. 2 vols. New York: Century, 1925.
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