American English; book of the past, present and future.

 

Food processor.

Repeat the following words.

Ancestor (an-ses-ter):                     Is he an ancestor of yours?

Anise (an-is):                     The black licorice (lik-er-ish) is made with anise.

Anxiety:                               Getting that speeding ticket gave me a lot of anxiety.

Apostrophe (uh-pos-truh-fee):    Please use an apostrophe to indicate possession.

Applaud (uh-plawd):     I have to applaud your decision.

Applause (uh-plawz):                    Loud applause followed her performance on piano.

Argyle (ahr-gahyl):         Do you like the patterns of my argyle socks?

Available:           Is that Rolls Royce Azure convertible available for rental?

Axe (aks):                            Did you get the axe at work?

Bolt:                      Did you see that lightning bolt split the tree in half?

Bomb:                   The bomb was hidden in the champagne bottle.

Bottom:                                I’ll get to the bottom of this, if it’s the last thing I do.

Bowl:                    Would you like a bowl of white rice or brown rice?

Britain:                                 Have you been to Britain?

Cavalry (kal-vuh-ree): Here comes the cavalry.

Celery:                 Did you want celery in that Bloody Mary?

Chairs:                 Please bring the extra chairs.

Chandelier (shan-dl-eer):                             That’s a beautiful chandelier you have in your house.

Chaos (key-os):                 It is said that the universe tends towards chaos or disorderliness.

Chauffer (shoh-fer):       What time will the limousine and the chauffer be here?

Childhood:         Let’s talk about your childhood.

Chronological (kroon-l-oj-i-kuhl):           Please list your references in chronological order.

Clothes (klohz):                Let’s get some new clothes.

Complacency (kuhm-pley-suhn-see):     Don’t let complacency get to you, keep on moving forward. 

American English is fun for couples: Compare and Contrast

Students from Brazil studying American English

Advise(ad-vahyz)

Breath(breth)

Breathe(breeth)

Confidant(kon-fi-dant)

Confident(kon-fi-duhnt)

Emigrate(em-i-greyt)

Immigrate(im-i-gruhnt)

Father(fah-ther)

Further(fur-ther)

Lightening(lahyt-n-ing)

Lightning(lahy-ting)

Moral(mawr-uhl)

Morale(muh-ral)

Abbreviations, acronyms, and pseudonyms from Mitch Rubman's American English

Abbreviations, acronyms, and pseudonyms

Everyone enjoys abbreviating a word, with the rise in texting they are even more important than before.

2F4U      Too Fast for You

4YEO    For Your Eyes Only

Abbr.     Abbreviation

ACK      Acknowledgment

AD         Anno Domini, or the Year of Our Lord.

Ad inf.  Ad infinitum

Ad          Assistant director

Adv.       Adverb

AFAIK  As Far As I Know

AKA      Also known As

AM        Ante Meridian (morning)

Anon     Anonymous

ASAP    As Soon As Possible

Ave        Avenue

B             Be

B/C         Because

BA         Bachelor of Arts

BFF        Best Friends, Forever

Blvd      Boulevard

BM&Y  Between Me and You

BRB       Be Right Back

BS          Bachelor of Science

BTW      By the Way

Mitch Rubman's American English list of Artists with phonetic spellings

Art history…  Albrecht Durer (door-er), Modigliani (moh-dee-lee-ah-nee), Andy Warhol (wawr-hawl), Camille Pissarro (pi-sahr-oh), Caravaggio (kar-uh-vah-joh), Claude Monet (moh-ney), Diego Rivera (ri-vair-uh), Edgar Degas (dee-gas), Edvard Munch (munk), Edward Hopper (hop-er), El Greco (grek-oh), Francis Bacon (bey-kuhn), Frida Kahlo (kah-loh), Gauguin (goh-gan), Braque (brak), Goya (goi-uh), Courbet (koor-be), Gustav Klimt, Hieronymus Bosch (bosh), Jackson Pollock (pol-uhk), Turner (tur-ner), Joan Miro (mee-roh), Vermeer (ver-meer), Leonardo da Vinci (vin-chee), Marc Chagall (shuh-gahl), Matisse (ma-tees), Michelangelo (mahy-kuhl-an-juh-loh), Pablo Picasso (pi-kah-soh), Paul Cezanne (si-zan), Paul Klee (kley), Peter Paul Rubens (roo-buhnz), Pierre Auguste Renoir (ren-wahr), Raphael (raf-ee-uhl), Rembrandt (Rem-brant), Rene Magritte (ma-greet), Rodin (roh-dan), Salvador Dali (dah-lee), Sandro Botticelli (bot-i-chel-ee), Titian (tish-uhn), Vincent Van Gogh (van-goh), Wassily Kandinsky (kan-din-skee), Willem de Kooning(duh-koo-ning).