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The aim of the theme is to study deeply the differences of American and British English spelling. American and British English spelling differences are one aspect of American and British English differences. There are thousands of differences in detail, and occasionally they crowd together enough to make some difficulty. American language is now essentially different from English does not hold up. It is often very difficult to decide whether a book was written by an American or an English man. Even in speech it would be hard to prove that national differences are greater than some local differences in either country. On the whole, it now seems probable that the language habits of the two countries will grow more, rather than less, alike, although some differences will undoubtedly remain and others may develop.
Taking into consideration the above mentioned, the most important goal of this term paper is the study the essential theoretical problems dealing with the orthography of this two languages and to examine the spelling of the words on the base of different examples.
The objectives of the paper are the following:
1. To study the linguistic literature on the general and special problems of British and American English;
2. To explain historical factors which were the basis for the differences;
3. To analyse the spelling differences on the base of examples
Оглавление:
Introduction 3
CHAPTER I Historical factors 5
1.1 Historical origin 5
1.2 Latin-derived spellings 8
1.2.1 -our, -or 8
1.2.2 -re, -er 10
1.2.3 -ce, -se 12
1.2.4 -xion, -ction 12
1.3 Greek spellings 13
1.3.1 -ise, -ize (-isation, -ization) 13
1.3.2 -yse, -yze 13
1.3.3 -ogue, -og 14
1.3.4 Simplification of ae and oe 14
CHAPTER II Other differences 15
2.1 Compounds and hyphens 15
2.2 Doubled consonants 16
2.2.1 Doubled in British English. 16
2.2.2 Doubled in American English 17
2.3 Dropped e 18
2.4 Different spellings, different connotations 19
2.5 Acronyms and abbreviations 21
2.6 Punctuation 22
Conclusion 23
Bibliography 24