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		Attention This section is devoted to English-to-English resources. For resources combining English with other languages, see the multilingual section and the page devoted to the other language!				Contents   Adressing in English American - British differences English irregular verbs     Files on other pages: · 100 most common English words : see German, Spanish, Portuguese · English verbs into German: see German · Irregular English verbs into German: see German · Irregular English verbs into Spanish: see Spanish · Jamaican Rasta Patois - Russian elementary dictionary : see Russian
		24 cards 17 kB				Addressing in English © by VTrain Team Various UK and US forms of address and abbreviations. Forms that appear preceded by "Your" can be used with "Her"/"His" when not addressing directly. Sample:   senator (US) --- Your Honor
		925 cards 560 kB				American - British differences © by VTrain Team Usage and pronunciation differences between American and British English, with phonetic transcriptions where necessary. The following topics are covered: Misc, Basic words, Clothing, Food, Furniture, Jobs, Objects, Places, People, Transport. The glossary includes some different types of hints. Terms labeled as "false friends" have a different meaning in the other variety of English. Words that are polysemic in one of the varieties are labeled "polysemous". Sample:   car /*[polysemous]*/ --- railway carriage /&/ van auto /*[colloquial]*/ /&/ automobile /&/ vehicle --- car /*false friend*/
		220 cards 151 kB				English irregular verbs © by VTrain Team This is a very comprehensive list of English irregular verbs (both British and American forms). We have omitted composite verbs such as behold, countersink, gainsay, inlay, mis-, over-, partake, re-, sublet, type-, un-, under-, up- that follow the same patterns as their root verbs -- but excepting ambiguous cases: e.g. belay, forbear, input and overlie were included in this list. We have also omitted all modal and auxiliary verbs: can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will, would. Sample:   lie (on surface) --- lie (on surface), lay, lain lie (to say a lie) --- lie (to say a lie), lied, lied
		33 cards 29 kB				IBM-PC English keyboard signs compiled by Henzer Guo, released as Public Domain This file contains a list of non-alphabetical characters present on English keyboards, along with their names.
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