Tip Talk：英英大战美英之spelling

不管你是不是英语专业的，英式英语和美式英语之间多年的爱恨情仇都应该有点耳闻吧？

前段时间，两国网友甚至在推特上掀起骂战，嘲笑对方的英语不够正宗。

其实，对我们来说，不论英英还是美英，能够流利表达，让别人听明白才是最重要的。

对于那些追求完美发音的同学，找一个自己喜欢的语音风格，然后锲而不舍地跟着练习，相信你一定会有所收获的。

从本期Tip Talk开始，我们将连续三期为大家介绍英英和美英之间的差异。

美国小哥Nick迎来了一位来自英国的小哥Greg。他们今天要聊的是英英和美英在单词拼写方面的差异。

Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English, end in -or in American English. Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, the spelling is the same everywhere.
英式英语中大多数以不重读的our结尾的英语单词，在美式英语中以or结尾。如果这个元音组合（our）重读了，那么，英美的拼写都是相同的。

In the early 18th century, English spelling was not standardized. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language 1755, while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language. Webster's 1828 dictionary had only -or and is given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Johnson's 1755 dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain. Most words of this kind came from Latin, where the ending was spelled -or.
18世纪早期，英语的拼写方式没有统一的标准。拼写方面的差异变得明显是在两本极有影响力的字典出版之后。今天英式英语的拼写方法大多是沿用1755年约翰逊编纂的《英语字典》，美式英语的拼写沿用了 韦伯斯特编写的《美国英语字典》。1828年的《美国英语字典》用的都是-or结尾的拼写并被广泛应用到全美各界。1755年的《英语字典》用的都是-our结尾，被英国人一直沿用至今。这些拼写有区别的单词大多源于拉丁语，在源语言中用-or结尾。

After the Norman conquest of England, the ending became -our to match the Old French spelling. After the Renaissance, new borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or ending, and many words once ending in -our, for example, chancellour and governour, went back to -or.
诺曼人占领英格兰后，拼写改成了-our结尾，为的是与法语拼写统一。文艺复兴以后，新的拉丁语外来词开始出现，沿用了源语言中-or结尾的方式。很多以-our结尾的词，像chancellour和governour，恢复成了-or结尾。

BE--AE different spellings

aeroplane--airplane

cheque--check

theatre--theater

grey--gray

programme--program

colour--color

neighbour--neighbor

apologise--apologize

pyjamas-pajamas

humour-humor

plough-plow

（编辑：Helen）