Most 2-syllable verbs ending in -ate have first-syllable stress in AmE and second-syllable stress in BrE. B1/2 Īlso some French names, including: Dunkirk, Niger Īccouchement, arrondissement, attaché, au courant, charivari, consommé a, cor anglais B2, décolleté, déclassé, démodé, dénouement, divertissement, distingué, escargot, exposé, fiancé(e) A2, financier, hors de combat, hotelier, papier-mâché, par excellence, portmanteau, poste restante, rapprochement, retroussé, soi-disant, sommelier.Īlso some French names, including: Debussy b, Dubonnet a, Élysées, Montpellier, Parmentier, Piaget, Rambouillet. Īddress b A1(noun), cigarette, esquire b* A2, lychee, magazine A2, mayonnaise A2, penchant, potpourri, shallot A2, solitaire, timbale, tirade A2, (p)artisan a. Words with relevant syllable stressed in each dialect Īrtisanal A1, liaison ab A2*, macramé ab, moustache/mustache, Renaissance, ab reveille īallet, bandeau, barrage a, baton ab*, beignet, beret a, bidet, blasé A2, bouclé, bouffant A2, bourrée, brasserie b, brassière ab, brevet ab A2, brochure b* B2, brûlée, buffet a, bustier, cachet A2, café *a*b, caffeine A2, calvados, canard a B1, chagrin a, chalet A2, chassé, château, chauffeur A2, cliché *a, collage a* B2, cornet, crochet, croissant *a, croquet, debris a A2, debut, décor A2, démarche, demimonde, denier, detail a A2, détente, duvet, épée, figurine B2, filet b, flambé, fouetté, foulard, frappé, fricandeau, frisson, frontier, garage a B2, gâteau, glacé, gourmet A2, lamé, lingerie, manqué, massif, massage, matinée, métier, mirage B2, moiré, montage, negligee A2, névé, nonchalant b A2, nondescript, nouveau, outré, parfait, parquet *b, pastel b B2, pastille b, pâté, peignoir, pension, pissoir, plateau, précis A2, protégé b B2, purée, ragout, rapport, rentier, risqué, rosé, roué, rouleau, rusé, sachet, salon a, saté, sauté, savant ab A2, soignée, soirée, solfège, sorbet a, sortie, soufflé, soupçon, tableau, tonneau, touché, toupée, triage, trousseau, vaccine, valet, vermouth B2, vol-au-vent.Īlso some French names, including: Argand, Avignon a Beauvoir, Bizet, Blériot, Boulez, Calais, Cambray, Cartier, Chablis, Chamonix, Chabrier, Chardonnay, Chirac, Chopin, Citroën, Cocteau, Dakar, Dauphin, Dauphine, Degas, Depardieu, Dijon, Dumas, Flaubert, Foucault, Franglais, Gerard, Godard, Lascaux, Lyon, Mallarmé, Manet, Marat, Massenet, Maurice, Millais, Molière, Monet, Perpignan, Perrault, Perrier, Peugeot, Piaf, Poirot, Poitiers, Poussin, Rabelais, Renault a, Rimbaud, Rodin, Roget, Rouen, Rousseau, Roussillon, Satie, Seurat, Thoreau, Tissot, Truffaut, Valois, Vouvray, Watteau. French loanwords that differ in stress only are listed below. Subscript a or b means that the relevant unstressed vowel is also reduced to / ə/ or / ɪ/ in AmE or BrE, respectively.įor many loanwords from French, AmE has final-syllable stress, while BrE stresses an earlier syllable. superscript B1 after a word indicates that the pronunciation given as AmE is also the most common variant in BrE.superscript A1 after a word indicates that the pronunciation given as BrE is also the most common variant in AmE. superscript B2 after a word indicates that the AmE pronunciation of the word is a common variant in BrE.superscript A2 after a word indicates that the BrE pronunciation of the word is a common variant in AmE.In this article, transcriptions use Received Pronunciation (RP) to represent BrE and General American (GAm) to represent AmE. differences in the pronunciation of individual words in the lexicon (i.e. See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain for information about other accents see regional accents of English speakers. Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into
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