American or British English ?

Nowadays , people are paying more attention on English . As we know , English is an international language for the world . But , what kind of English are you using ? American English or British English ? This is one of the topic that i have discussed in my class . Malaysia is using British English , common seen in textbook . But for personally , i prefer using American English . 

Don't know what are the differences between American English and British English ? No worries ! Let us go through the nitty-gritty now .

1. British English pronounce the consonants more carefully than American English .

• Do you want to eat with us later ? 

But American English had shorten the sentence and made some new words that we can common see in internet . FYI : wanna , gonna , whacha doing , whaddya say , etc 

• Do you wanna eat with us later ?

American usually pronounce the ' t ' consonant into ' d ' 

• They pronounce ' water ' like ' wader ' 

On the other hand , British don't pronounce the ' r ' in the words ' er' 

• They say ' wate ' instead of ' water '

So do you get what am i saying ? Next . 

      2.  The different words for the same things .

• American use ' sweater ' , British use ' jumper ' .
  
• American use ' pants ' , British use ' trousers '
  
•  Actually these are all the same things . 

And the important one , you have to bear in mind what i wanna talk about now .

      3.  The same words for the different things .

• what spring into your mind when you see the word ' pants ' ? 
• American wear ' pants ' over their underwear . 
• British wear ' pants ' under their trousers .
• Pants in America , are the trousers . But beware , In British , it has the meaning of ' underwear ' .
  

      4.  Differences in Grammar .

• American might say : Do you have an extra pen ?
• But British would say : Have you got an extra pen ? 

      5.  Some words and expressions are different too .

• American use the words ' cool ' or ' great ' to describe something they like , but British use ' lovely '
• The word ' Mad ' . American mean [ angry ] .
• If I say : " My friend , Kit Ling is a truly mad girl " in England , that will mean ' crazy ' .
  

So , languages change over time . We have to know it well so just can we use it correctly . Im going to have my exam now . Tomorrow will be the graduation day , stay tuned !