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	Encyclopedia: American English
		Southern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from central Kentucky and northern Virginia to the Gulf Coast and from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas.
		American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British English (or Commonwealth English), some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the English spelling used by British English at the time.
		Main article: Southern American English Southern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from central Kentucky and northern Virginia to the Gulf Coast and from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-English (10920 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 2. The Influence of Webster. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The best dictionary available to Americans before this was Johnson’s in its various incarnations, but against Johnson’s stood a good deal of animosity to its compiler, whose implacable hatred of all things American was well known to the citizens of the new republic.
		Webster had declared boldly for simpler spellings in his early spelling books; in his dictionary of 1806 he made an assault at all arms upon some of the dearest prejudices of English lexicographers.
		These spellings still survive, and are practically universal in the United States today; their use constitutes one of the most obvious differences between written English and written American.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/185/32.html (2373 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		Literary taste at the present time, with regard to foreign words recently borrowed from abroad, is on wrong lines, the notions which govern it being scientifically incorrect, tending to impair the national character of our standard speech, and to adapt it to the habits of classical scholars.
		The sauer, in sauer-kraut and sauer-braten, is often spelled sour.
		American newspapers seldom distinguish between the masculine and feminine forms of common loan-words.
	www.bartleby.com /185/36.html (1372 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 5. Simplified Spelling. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		The current movement toward a general reform of English-American spelling is of American origin, and its chief supporters are Americans today.
		Its actual father was Webster, for it was the long controversy over his simplified spellings that brought the dons of the American Philological Association to a serious investigation of the subject.
		Even fosfate and fotograf, he says, “are bound to be the spellings of the future.” 41 Meanwhile the advertisement writers and authors combine in an attempt to naturalize alright, a compound of all and right, made by analogy with already and almost.
	www.bartleby.com /185/35.html (2116 words)

	Chapter 8. American Spelling. 1. The Two Orthographies. Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		According to a recent writer upon the subject, “there are 812 words in which the prevailing American spelling differs from the English.” 3 But enough examples are given here to reveal a number of definite tendencies.
		American, in general, moves toward simplified forms of spelling more rapidly than English, and has got much further along the road.
		The American substitution of a for e in gray is not easily explained, nor is the retention of e in forego, nor the unphonetic substitution of s for z in fuse, nor the persistence of the y in gypsy and pygmy, nor the occasional survival of a foreign form, as in cloture.
	www.bartleby.com /185/31.html (1189 words)

	American and British English Differences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The American style was established for typographical reasons having to do with the aesthetics of commas and quotes in typeset text; however, it is counterintuitive to some people, and illogical to mutilate strings with characters that do not belong in them.
		Americans also have a tendency to read numbers like 1234 as "twelve thirty-four", which would be "twelve hundred and thirty-four" or "one thousand, two hundred and thirty-four" in Britain unless discussing the year 1234, when "twelve thirty-four" would be the norm.
		In American English, the ironic "I could care less" (without the "n't") is synonymous with this, while in British English, "I could care less" is most certainly not synonymous with this, and might be interpreted as anything from nonsense to the speaker's expressing that he or she does care.
	www.termsdefined.net /am/american-and-british-english-differences.html (3402 words)

	American Spellings for UK. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The principle on which English spelling is often said to be based, and which is often claimed as its justification, is that of etymology: English spellings are as they are, it is asserted, because they show the derivation of words from Old English, or French, or Latin, or Greek, or wherever else.
		The irregular spelling of English does incalculable damage to educational standards in general, but a more enlightened attitude towards American spellings in Britain (and in those parts of the world where the British tradition has taken root) would tend slightly to reduce the problem.
		The Simplified Spelling Society believes it is time for the British to inform themselves of the true nature of their traditional orthography, and to draw the appropriate conclusions for literacy teaching.
	www.spellingsociety.org /journals/j21/usforuk.php (2267 words)

	American English
		A composite of bitumen (a tarry substance) and gravel used for surfacing/paving roads etc. In American usage "tarmac" is used to refer to surface of airport runways etc. A macadamised road is one with a surface of carefully graded stones first devised by John Macadam in the early 19th century.
		American practice is fl for live, white for neutral and green for earth, although it is not normal for the cord from the outlet to the appliance to have colour coded wires.
		American power sockets use thin flat blades, sometimes with a round earth pin, plugs are almost always moulded on to the cable.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /%7Ejphb/american.html (12175 words)

	The American Spelling Book, by Noah Webster (1800?)
		The usual method of throwing together, in the same tables, and without any mark of distinction, words in which the same letters are differently pronounced, and the received rules of dividing syllables, which are wholly arbitrary, and often unnatural, seem calculated to puzzle the learner, and mislead the instructor into a vicious pronunciations.
		vii Any Spelling Book, we are sensible, may be used to advantage in the hands of a teacher who is himself a good judge of pronunciation; but it is the peculiar excellence of this, that, wherever it is adopted, the teacher, however deficient at present in that necessary accomplishment, cannot remain so.
		Spelling is the art of dividing words into their proper syllables, in order to find their true pronunciation.
	www.merrycoz.org /books/spelling/SPELLING.HTM (10780 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
		Born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758, Noah Webster came of age during the American Revolution and was a strong advocate of the Constitutional Convention.
		He believed fervently in the developing cultural independence of the United States, a chief part of which was to be a distinctive American language with its own idiom, pronunciation, and style.
		Reasoning that many spelling conventions were artificial and needlessly confusing, he urged altering many words: musick to music, centre to center, and plough to plow, for example.
	www.m-w.com /about/noah.htm (363 words)

	Indian American wins Spelling Bee - NDTV.com - News on Indian American wins Spelling Bee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Indian Americans Aliya Robin Deri and Rajiv Tarigopula were in the contest till Round 14, when Rajiv, 12 of Missouri, spelled "odylic" incorrectly.
		In later rounds, contestants had to spell such words as "incunabula," which are books printed before 1501, and "nemathelminth," a type of worm.
		One contestant had to spell the word "olid," which is a strong, disagreeable smell.
	www.ndtv.com /morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Indian+American+wins+Spelling+Bee&id=73956 (486 words)

	Can they spell your name in Karachi? British and American style spelling
		A paper I once submitted to an American journal was returned with the comment 'American spelling for an American journal'.
		The differences between American and British style are not just the concerns of the USA and England.
		Spelling is one of those areas of language where attitude counts more than logic – why should 'wot' denote a illiterate when it captures the sounds of 'what' much more efficiently?
	homepage.ntlworld.com /vivian.c/Writings/Shorts/KarachiAmBrit.htm (579 words)

	§7. American Spelling. XXX. The English Language in America. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The ...
		Johnson’s spelling has undergone some simplification in both countries: almanack, musick, errour, horrour, interiour, successour, emperour, oratour, have everywhere dropped unnecessary letters.
		Of the British attempts to distinguish by the spelling story, narrative (plural stories), from storey, floor (pl. storeys), and curb (bit) from kerb (stone), the first has some etymological argument in its favour, but neither has commended itself to American usage.
		Britons themselves are quite as likely to spell cider and pajamas in the fashion always employed in America as they are to write cyder and pyjamas.
	www.bartleby.com /228/0707.html (267 words)

	Spelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, they tend to miss homonyms -- words which are pronounced the same way but spelled differently, such as site/ sight, there/ their/ they're, and its/ it's.
		The joint influence of British and American spelling on Canadian usage has provided an additional challenge to Canadian students: Canadians tend to follow standard British spelling for certain words (axe, cheque), to follow American spelling for others (connection, tire), and to allow either for yet more (programme/ program, labour/ labor, neighbour/ neighbor).
		Although spelling correctly is largely a matter of practice and the common-sense use of reference materials, there are four standard spelling rules.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/spelling.html (241 words)

	49.2 (p.830) A guide to British/American spelling differences.
		Generally American English or as a word ending is equivalent to our in British English, American er as a word ending is sometimes equivalent to re in British English.
		In American English the final -e is removed from verbs before adding ing; in correct British English this is not done giving routeing (British) and routing (American); however, the American practice of dropping -e is becoming quite common in British English.
		American English tends to prefer ize and ization whereas British English prefers ise and isation contrary to statements by certain well known British authorities.
	wps.ablongman.com /long_hult_nch_3/0,9398,1484001-,00.html (234 words)

	(American) English Spelling
		This is often difficult for us since often we get comments regarding text as well as spelling.
		Alternative spellings, especially British vs. American, should also be noted.
		A spell checker will only find words incorrectly spelled.
	www.studygs.net /spelling.htm (907 words)

	American English
		In American English the final e is removed from verbs before adding -ing, in correct British English this is not done giving "routeing" (British) and "routing" (American), however the American practice of dropping the "e" is becoming quite common in British English.
		American English tends to prefer -ize and -ization whereas British English prefers -ise and -isation contrary to statements by certain well-known British authorities and much spell checking software.
		British houses are usually numbered serially starting from one end of a road or street with even numbers on one side and odd numbers on the other side, however it is not uncommon to find them numbered sequentially up one side of the road and down the other.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 words)

	What, in general, are the differences between British and American spelling, and why do they exist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sometimes words in British and American English are identical in meaning but spelled differently, as in sulfur and sulphur, hemoglobin and haemoglobin.
		The trend in American spelling is to drop letters that are not needed in a word, such as the 'u' in 'colour'.
		The spelling of such terms at theater instead of theatre and color instead of colour is Webster's legacy.
	dictionary.reference.com /help/faq/language/b/brsp-amsp.html (349 words)

	SPELLING DEAREST: A history of English spelling + US Spelling history - SUPPORTING INFORMATION
		Within the book's introduction and threaded throughout the history, however, are fundamental complaints about our modern-day English-spelling system: e.g., it is the worst alphabetic spelling system in the world, it is enormously and needlessly complex, it not only creates poor spellers but poor readers as well.
		The American Literacy Council (ALC), based in New York City, is the current name for a string of US based literacy and simplified spelling organizations that date back to 1876.
		The council is dedicated to the concept of reforming English spelling.
	www.spellingdearest.com /wst_page10.html (2709 words)

	English and American spelling
		Because of the amount of American-produced software, incorporating American spell-checkers, it is becoming almost the norm to spell in American.
		Either because it is aimed at the American, and much larger, market or because the people who wrote the software have been using American spell-checkers for so long that they can no longer spell in English.
		As a result she and her colleagues have been using American spell-checkers for so long they think the American way is correct for this part of the world (England and Ireland)!
	www.pe2000.com /canute_spelling.htm (807 words)

	British vs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As any student of English knows very well, there is an amazing variety of spelling (lexicon), meaning (morphology), pronunciation (phonetics), useage (syntax), and even punctuation in the English language amongst the many people who use English, either as their first or as an additional language.
		This page is meant to clarify some of the issues around spelling differences between American and British English.
		Issues of morphology and syntax are infinitely more complicated than spelling, and there is much greater variety around the world, so those issues will not be covered in detail here.
	www.gsu.edu /~wwwesl/egw/jones/spelling.htm (211 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: American English Spelling : An Informal Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic.
		Cummings also describes the explication of written words into their elements, particles, and processes, and he sets out the tactical and procedural rules that control the distribution and sequencing of vowels and consonants.
		An essential reference work, American English Spelling moves beyond questions of how words are spelled to an understanding of why they are spelled as they are.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801834430?v=glance (658 words)

	Spellzone
		In English spelling, some sounds can be spelt in many different ways.
		This program teaches you the spelling rules and phonic (sound) rules that help you remember the right choice.
		You can check your progress in practice exercises and spelling tests and get instant feedback on how well you have done.
	www.spellzone.com (198 words)

	Spelling Test
		There are some spelling tips on another page.
		The spellings considered correct are American spellings (because I'm an American).
		The preferred spelling will differ in the British Commonwealth in some cases (at least one that I'm sure of).
	www.sentex.net /~mmcadams/spelling.html (126 words)

	Similar words but different meanings \| Samizdata.net
		That's because their authority, quite naturally, is the Oxford English Dictionary, which takes the view that -ize is the correct spelling.
		The -ize suffix is taken from the Latin (and indeed Greek), as in organizare, so it is etymologically sound to spell -ize with a z.
		The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/007285.html (1533 words)

	European English vs. American spelling
		Besides some words that are entirely different, There are also words that are merely spelled differently between European and American English usage.
		Many of these differences are in the endings of words otherwise spelled the same.
		Obviously, some of these are pronounced with a slight difference, but really don't qualify as different words.
	www.geocities.com /stevenedw/euroenglishspelling.html (92 words)

	British, Canadian and American Spelling
		If you are looking for a specific word in Canadian or American English, please go to Edit, then Find.
		Canadian English generally follows British spelling, but often the American alternative is possible too.
		The most commonly used spelling is marked with an asterisk.
	www3.telus.net /linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm (109 words)

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