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19th May 2011

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Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #18: Emily Bennett, American Girl series Even though British and Americans both spoke English, it seemed to Emily that they spoke different kinds of English. First of all, there were different names for things, like “cookies” for biscuits, “sweater” for jumper, and “sneakers” for plimsolls. Americans pronounced words differently, too. They put an “r” as hard as a growl in the middle of “girl” and at the end of “dear” and “number”. But what Emily found most difficult was the way Americans — or at least Molly and her friends — joked and exaggerated, so that Emily couldn’t tell if they meant what they said or not. Indeed, sometimes they meant the exact opposite of what they’d said. Emily often felt just as much in a fog in conversations as she’d been on the ship crossing the foggy Atlantic Ocean!

Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #18:
Emily Bennett, American Girl series

Even though British and Americans both spoke English, it seemed to Emily that they spoke different kinds of English. First of all, there were different names for things, like “cookies” for biscuits, “sweater” for jumper, and “sneakers” for plimsolls. Americans pronounced words differently, too. They put an “r” as hard as a growl in the middle of “girl” and at the end of “dear” and “number”. But what Emily found most difficult was the way Americans — or at least Molly and her friends — joked and exaggerated, so that Emily couldn’t tell if they meant what they said or not. Indeed, sometimes they meant the exact opposite of what they’d said. Emily often felt just as much in a fog in conversations as she’d been on the ship crossing the foggy Atlantic Ocean!

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