4.1 Vocabulary
Table 4.1.1 shows the participants’ ability to distinguish between AmE and BrE vocabulary. The label ‘wrong answer’ refers to the participants who either chose the wrong variety of English or falsely believed that the words were used by both AmE and BrE when the words were not. The percentages in the diagrams are an average of 87 participants’ answers and each color in the circle diagram represent one label each. The vocabulary phase included 40 sentences with 41 given words which the participants were asked to decide whether they belong to AmE or BrE.