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    L'anglais britannique et l'anglais américain: les principales différences


    Aux Etats-Unis, on utilise des mots qu'on n'utilise pas en Angleterre, et inversement. Voici les principales différences entre l'anglais GB et l'anglais US:

    FRANÇAIS
    ANGLAIS BRITANNIQUE
    ANGLAIS AMÉRICAIN
    l'aluminium aluminium aluminum
    une antenne an aerial an antenna
    un appartement a flat an apartment
    un ascenseur a lift an elevator
    une aubergine an aubergine an egg-plant
    l'automne autumn autumn / fall
    une autoroute a motorway a highway
    une auto-tamponneuse a dodgem a bumper-car
    la barbe-à-papa candy floss cotton candy
    un biscuit a biscuit a cookie
    une boîte de conserve a tin a can
    une paire de bretelles a pair of braces a pair of suspenders
    un café a pub a bar
    un camion a lorry a truck
    un cinéma a cinema a movie theater
    le cinéma the cinema the movies
    un clochard a tramp a bum
    le coffre (d'une voiture) the boot the trunk
    être en colère contre to be angry with to be mad at / to be angry with
    une courgette a courgette a zucchini
    une cuisinière a cooker = an oven an oven
    un CV a CV a résumé
    un dessert a pudding = a sweet a dessert
    des détritus rubbish garbage
    un éboueur a dustman a garbage collector
    de l'essence petrol gas(oline)
    un facteur a postman a mailman
    un film a film a movie = a film
    fou mad = crazy crazy
    un gilet a waistcoat a vest
    maman mum mom
    un manège a merry-go-round a carousel
    un pantalon trousers pants
    un parking a carpark a parking lot
    une pharmacie a chemist's shop a pharmacy = a drugstore
    une poubelle a dust bin a garbage can
    une robe de chambre a robe a dressing-gown
    un téléphone portable a mobile phone a cell phone = a mobile phone
    une tétine a dummy a pacifier
    un tricot de corps a vest an undershirt
    un trottoir a pavement a sidewalk
    des vacances a holiday = holidays a vacation

     

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