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16 juin 2008 · Jun 16, 2008. #3. When you are speaking about Americans in general, you do not use the article: "Americans are friendly". If you are speaking about a group of specific Americans, you use "the": "the Americans that we met yesterday were friendly". O.
2 janv. 2021 · But Americans pronounce "er" as a vowel. In American English the "er" is an "R-colored E", a single vowel sound. The IPA symbol is /ɚ/. It is not an E sound followed by an R sound. So in "rather than", you have two /ð/ consonants with an /ɚ/ in between: /raðɚðan/. R-colored vowel - Wikipedia American English has 3 R-colored vowels. Those ...
9 juin 2013 · No, Americans do not call SUVs "trucks". The Land Rover in the picture is a sport utility vehicle (SUV). Why the particular Americans you mention might refer to their cars that way, I don't know. Some small groups do sometimes have particular slang words they use just among themselves. It's possible that the Americans you know might do so ...
26 avr. 2009 · I would like to know, how you say: They are american. or They are americans. ?? I have seen in some pages that people use both but i remember that only you can put S in the case of the noun and never in the adjectives. What is the correct way to say it? Thanks a lot..
16 juin 2017 · The quote is Lord Ismay's reaction to previous and current events. Lord Ismay was British, not American. The quote is about the situation after the war is won and Germany is occupied. keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.”. Lord Ismay knew that after World War I that the Americans withdrew into isolationism.
8 déc. 2008 · Americans is plural, so you need the plural form do. If you have one American, the sentences will still be in the third person, but with the singular form of the verb, does. Americans do not use [something]. One American does not use [something]. Edit: A couple of posts have been posted as I was writing this.
28 mai 2006 · English. May 29, 2006. #45. There's a famous saying (attributed to E.B. White) which goes: To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
25 mai 2021 · I was told that Americans don't use 'pupils'. Instead, they use 'students'. That is incorrect. Both words are used. The word "pupil" is not rare. As for frequency, here are two Ngrams: first British, then American. They show that "student" is more common nowadays: Google Books Ngram Viewer. Google Books Ngram Viewer.
9 févr. 2014 · You will find some younger British speakers use it, under influence from the Americans. A lot of Brits use American words in casual speech, especially Scottish and Irish people because the American accent is a little 'closer' to our own accents. I am actually watching a comedy show* as I reply to this thread, which makes fun of Scots talking ...
12 nov. 2014 · English, U.S. Nov 12, 2014. #5. "William" is a very common name among English-speaking Americans, and "Wilhelm" is uncommon. I think most Americans would recognize "Wilhelm" (regardless of whether you pronounce it with [w] or [v]) as a name of German origin, and they might be curious as to how an American came to have that name.
