Tuesday, July 15, 2008

English Phrases According to Dialect

Hi, Everyone,

Given our interesting discussion on Monday morning about region-specific English phrases, I thought I'd post some interesting links for websites that "claim" to know the answers. I must warn you, however: can anyone really claim 100% that certain expressions "don't exist" in a specific region in which English is spoken? I don't think so!

English greetings: formal/informal, American perspective: http://www.english-at-home.com/speaking/english-greetings/

Vocabulary differences:
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/britishcanadianamericanvocab.html

British Slang:
http://www.effingpot.com/slang.shtml

The BG-Map English (British) to American Dictionary: http://www.bg-map.com/us-uk.html

http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/greetings.htm

Enjoy,

Lara



1 comment:

Brett said...

Another interesting resource for this kind of thing is the blog
Separated by a Common Language
. It's not really for simple reference though.