Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary ( lexis ), spelling, punctuation, idioms, formatting of dates and numbers, although the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much less than those of other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility.

Spelling might vary from city to city, probably reflecting differences of pronunciation.

Like many other alphabetic orthographies, English spelling does not represent non-contrastive phonetic sounds ( that is, minor differences in pronunciation which are not used to distinguish between different words ).

According to some, due to a misunderstanding arising from differences in pronunciation between French and English, the commonly used brass embouchure in Europe was interpreted incorrectly.

According to Ministry of Education guidelines, and the opinions of educators, the use of Japanese furigana should be avoided in English teaching due to the differences in pronunciation between English and Japanese.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

In those dialects, the name is sometimes rendered as Inuktitun to reflect dialectal differences in pronunciation.

In many cases, this written language reflected Mandarin varieties, and since pronunciation differences were not conveyed in this written form, this tradition had a unifying force across all the Mandarin-speaking regions and beyond.

This perceived tempo difference may be a coupling of subtle pronunciation differences and unusual sayings and can be a contributing factor to the difficulty non-Newfoundlanders sometimes experience with the dialect.

When the third Caliph Uthman began noticing slight differences in pronunciation of the Quranic Arabic by those whose dialect was not that of the Quraish, he sought Hafsa's permission to use her text and commissioned a committee to produce a standard copy of the text of Quran to which added diacritical marks ensured correct pronunciation, and to be set as the standard dialect, the Quraish dialect, now known as Fus ' ha ( Modern Standard Arabic ) ( see Origin and development of the Quran ).

However, it does differ from Malaysian in several aspects, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary.

Even within these broad categories there are considerable differences in inflection and pronunciation.

There are certain differences in grammar between the standard forms of British English, American English, and Australian English, although these are inconspicuous compared with the lexical and pronunciation differences.

European pronunciation is not really difficult for Canadians to understand ; only differences in vocabulary present any problems.

White Hmong and Mong Leng people speak mutually intelligible dialects of the Hmong language with some differences in pronunciation and vocabulary.

However, there are still differences in pronunciation between the ICAO and other agencies, and the ICAO has conflicting Roman-alphabet and IPA transcriptions.

Conversely, a phonetic character set is written precisely as it is spoken, but with the disadvantage that slight pronunciation differences introduce ambiguities.

Another characteristic feature of Sumerian is the large number of homophones ( words with the same sound structure but different meanings ), which are perhaps pseudo-homophones, as there might have been differences in pronunciation such as tone or some phonemic distinctions that are unknown.

Differences remained, sometimes bolstered by systematic local differences in pronunciation and cantillation.

It has lower intelligibility with the East South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Macedonian, than with Slovene ( although Slovene is part of the West subgroup, it is hindered by differences in vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation to the Serbo-Croatian standard forms, although closer to the Serbo-Croatian Kajkavian and Čakavian dialects ).

Adeni Jews tend to consider themselves a different ethnicity to other Yemeni Jews, due to differences in traditions, prayers ( pronunciation ) and customs that have evolved under British rule.

" In spoken Hawaiian, vowel length is contrastive, and these are major differences in pronunciation.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

The Iranian and Afghan dialects of Persian are highly mutually intelligible, with differences found primarily in the vocabulary and phonology.

The principal differences between standard Iranian Persian, based on the dialect of the capital Tehran, and Afghan Dari, as based on the Kabul dialect, are:

The party backed the Iranian Revolution and also Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iran-Iraq War and the group still receives financial support from Tehran despite ideological differences with the Islamic Republic.

He resigned from his post three times after the Iranian Majlis election of 2004, because of " differences in political viewpoints with the parliament's majority ", and finally, on October 12, 2004, his resignation was accepted by President Khatami.

They sorted out their differences through a " round robin of expulsions, blindings and executions ," which resulted in the deterioration of the Afghan hold over far-flung territories, such as Attock and Kashmir.

The Kabul Soccer Club ( established in 1983 in Concord, California and Alexandria, Virginia ) promotes soccer and provides a common ground for cultural differences between generations of Afghan Americans.

Due to differences between him and the new Afghan President Hamid Karzai as well as Ashraf Ghani ( the former Finance Minister ), Mohaqiq was ousted from the cabinet by Hamid Karzai.

There are phonological, lexical, and morphological differences between Dari and western Persian.

The primary differences between Standard Persian and Hazaragi are the accent and Hazaragi's greater array of Mongolic loanwords.

Despite these differences, Hazaragi is mutually intelligible with other regional Persian dialects.

Political pressure within Persia and cultural differences with western Christianity were mostly to blame for the Nestorian schism, in which the Persian church was labelled heretical.

The differences in vocabulary is due to the fact that the Western Punjabi dialects have been influenced by Persian, and to a lesser extend Arabic, since the days of the Mughul empire.

The dialects of the two clusters are intelligible to one another, and most of the differences are due to receiving loanwords from different languages: Persian, Kurdish and Turkish languages especially.

Lord Curzon described 19th century regional differences in the situation of the Persian Jews: " In Isfahan, where they are said to be 3, 700 and where they occupy a relatively better status than elsewhere in Persia, they are not permitted to wear kolah or Persian headdress, to have shops in the bazaar, to build the walls of their houses as high as a Moslem neighbour's, or to ride in the street.

Speakers of Achomi ( Persians that grew in the Persian Gulf ) dialect that come from different towns might also find some differences in some words and also grammar and more importantly their accent.

We can no longer rely on interdepartmental machinery `` somewhere upstairs '' to resolve differences between this and other departments.

Higher education cannot compete with the salary scales of the business world, but an educational institution can offer many potent intangible attractions to members of the business community that will offset the differences in income.

This method can be extended to include the concentration differences caused by shear fields.

In the second-order theory, one of the normal stress differences can be calculated from the first-order stress relaxation function.

Some interfaith tensions are not occasioned by theological differences at all, but by the need of men to have persons they can blame, distrust, denounce, and even hate.

Typically, however, the one-way ANOVA is used to test for differences among at least three groups, since the two-group case can be covered by a t-test.

Electrons that are bound to atoms possess a set of stable energy levels, or orbitals, and can undergo transitions between them by absorbing or emitting photons that match the energy differences between the levels.

It can be said that the SANNC had its origins in a pronouncement by Pixley ka Isaka Seme who said in 1911 Forget all the past differences among Africans and unite in one national organisation.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

To mitigate the differences between K & R C and the ANSI C standard, the (" standard c ") macro can be used to split code into ANSI and K & R sections.

Parmenides reasoned that if everything is identical to being and being is a category of the same thing then there can be neither differences between things nor any change.

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state.

While nations often strive for substantive harmony to facilitate cross-national distribution, philosophical differences about the optimal extent of regulation can be a hindrance ; more restrictive regulations seem appealing on an intuitive level, but critics decry the tradeoff cost in terms of slowing access to life-saving developments.

The crucial differences with the previous wave can be seen in the downward shift in melodies, increasing durations of movements, the acceptance of Mozart and Haydn as paradigmatic, the greater use of keyboard resources, the shift from " vocal " writing to " pianistic " writing, the growing pull of the minor and of modal ambiguity, and the increasing importance of varying accompanying figures to bring " texture " forward as an element in music.

The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.

These differences in structure can produce differences in antibiotic susceptibility, for instance vancomycin can kill only Gram-positive bacteria and is ineffective against Gram-negative pathogens, such as Haemophilus influenzae or Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Nearly all the descriptive words used to justify the genus division were relative terms without a reference measure, and the argument did not take into account the size differences between the species, which can be considerable.

High inside pressure inhibits motion because the temperature differences are not enough to push the vanes through the higher concentration of air: there is too much air resistance for " eddy currents " to occur, and any slight air movement caused by the temperature difference is damped by the higher pressure before the currents can " wrap around " to the other side.

Even under very high concentrations, it can still distinguish very small differences in concentration.

Individual crocheters work yarn with a loose or a tight hold and, if unmeasured, these differences can lead to significant size changes in finished garments that have the same number of stitches.

Cetaceans can remain under water for much longer periods than most other mammals, ( about seven to 30 minutes, varying by species ) due to large physiological differences.