例:yourself, nervous, skirt, shirt, short, horse, bird
2)美國人習慣清輔音濁化/t/
例:writer/rider, latter/ladder, petal/pedal/ city, greeting, water, dirty, letter, pretty
3)字母a的發(fā)音
出現(xiàn)在-ss, -st, -th, -ff, -ef, -nce 等前面時,美音把a讀為/æ/
例: can’t, last, mask, chance, advantage answer, advance, after, ask, past, branch,castle, pass, example, fast, France, glance, glass, half, staff
4)詞尾-ile
英音/ail/,美音/il/ 或 /i:l/
例:fertile, hostile, missile, versatile, volatile, sterile,tensile
5)字母u和ew
在l, d, n, t 之后,美音傾向于讀/u/ ,而英音傾向讀/ju/
例:due, produce, attitude, student, superman, virtue,durable, endure
6)字母“o”
在美音讀為/a/而在英音中讀為/?/
例:hot, coral, bottle, popular, knock, politician, odd,lock, pot, sock, watch, fog, nod, solve, rocket, shop