1) 美音卷舌头r：

　　例：yourself, nervous, skirt, shirt, short, horse, bird

　　2)美国人习惯清辅音浊化/t/

　　例：writer/rider, latter/ladder, petal/pedal/ city, greeting, water, dirty, letter, pretty

　　3)字母a的发音

　　出现在-ss, -st, -th, -ff, -ef, -nce 等前面时，美音把a读为/æ/

　　例: can’t, last, mask, chance, advantage answer, advance, after, ask, past, branch,castle, pass, example, fast, France, glance, glass, half, staff

　　4)词尾-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，美音倾向于读/u/ ，而英音倾向读/ju/

　　例：due, produce, attitude, student, superman, virtue,durable, endure

　　6)字母“o”

　　在美音读为/a/而在英音中读为/?/

　　例：hot, coral, bottle, popular, knock, politician, odd,lock, pot, sock, watch, fog, nod, solve, rocket, shop