Differences: AmE vs BrE
Vowels
AmE (14/15)
BrE (20)
/a:/
Top
/ɒ/
/ae/
Laugh
/a:/
/ae/
 closer
/ae/
<u> after dental
alveolar no /j/
sound
/3r/
Music
Worry, derby
/ʌ/ or /a:/
Consonants (24)
AmE
BrE
Rhotic
/r/
Non rhotic
Dark
/l/
Clear, dark after
vowels
Flapped (dropped
after <n>, like in
winter = winner)
Absent
/t/
/ʔ/
Present
Stress
AmE
French stress
BrE
French
loanwords
(ballet)
-ate
First syllable
Full vowel
penultimate
syllable
Reduced to shwa
-ary, -ery
Shwa or not
pronounced
Slow and loud
Intonation
First syllable
-ile
Last syllable