ABSTRACT
In the texts of the North American and British examples which follow, no respellings are used for vowels and consonants regularly and typically different, such as a in “can’t” or in “all”; o in “lot” or in “coffee”; t as in “little”; r before a consonant, which is silent in British speech but heard in most North American. This procedure is followed with the British dialect group, as it is with the North American.
