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	American English definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		American English can be described in terms of three groups: (1) the dialect divisions Northern, Coastal Southern, Midland, and Western; (2) distinctive urban varieties, as in New York and New Orleans; (3) vernacular forms, for example, African American English and Jewish English.
		American English tends to be nasal and, apart from three areas (eastern New England, New York City, and the Southern states), the r sound is pronounced in words such as art, door, and worker; it is also pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled back and raised.
		American English often places stress on the first syllables of certain words, for example, laboratory and excess, whereas British English moves the stress to medial or terminal positions, as in their pronunciations /lə bórrətri/ and /ek séss/.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861694011/American_English.html (791 words)

	The English-to-American Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As if this wasn't confusing enough, Americans have a type of sweet called a "chocolate drop" which is described by a contributor as "dome-shaped or beehive-shaped, about an inch tall and 3/4 inch in diameter.
		Prior to American independence a British king (not sure which one) elected to raise tax on beer but upon discovering that he needed an act of parliament to change the tax, he instead changed the size of the pint (which only required a royal edict).
		"A prawn" to a Brit is a "shrimp" to an American.
	english2american.com /dictionary/cat_food.html (3597 words)

	English Language Dictionaries : Seeley G. Mudd Library, Lawrence University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This dictionary is a guide to standard American English for students from all backgrounds and languages.
		This dictionary includes discussions of everyday words such as "garage" and "either" along with debates of the pronunciation of more unusual terms, like "insouciant." Less attention is given to the definitions themselves than to the varieties and histories of pronunciations.
		The emphasis of the Bank of English is primarily on British English, but approximately a quarter of the data is taken from American English materials, and about 5% from other native varieties of English.
	www.lawrence.edu /library/guides/englishdictionaries.shtml (909 words)

	UW Libraries - English Language Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.
		The print Middle English Dictionary, now complete, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available.
		DARE documents "the varieties of English that are not found everywhere in the United States--those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another.
	www.lib.washington.edu /subject/English/Dictionaries.html (786 words)

	Dictionary of American Regional English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dictionary of American Regional English is a dictionary that documents the different dialects of American English.
		American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online Interviews with speakers of American English dialects from across the United States, each speaker reading "Arthur the Rat." "Arthur the Rat" is a short tale devised to obtain phonetic representation from throughout the country of all phonemes in American English.
		This collaboration among the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies (MKI), the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures (CSUMC), the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), and the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Center is a funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Regional_English (496 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.
		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.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 words)

	Standard English. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		The variety of English that is generally acknowledged as the model for the speech and writing of educated speakers.
		Sometimes it is used to denote the variety of English prescribed by traditional prescriptive norms, and in this sense it includes rules and usages that many educated speakers don't systematically conform to in their speech or writing, such as the rules for use of who and whom.
		A form that is considered standard in one region may be nonstandard in another, and a form that is standard by contrast with one variety (for example the language of inner-city African Americans) may be considered nonstandard by contrast with the usage of middle-class professionals.
	www.bartleby.com /61/22/S0702225.html (380 words)

	Dictionary of English - American English
		Perhaps the main one is the American use of the past tense where British English would use the present perfect tense.
		The present subjunctive is used more in American English than in British English, for example He proposed that she remain in charge.
		American English would start with one in the same way, but would follow it with he and possessive his.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/dictionaries/english/data/d0081550.html (1397 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . DARE . Word Power \| PBS
		Although American English is in many ways remarkably homogeneous considering the size of the United States, there are still many thousands of differences that characterize the various dialect regions.
		Joan Houston Hall, Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English (familiarly known as DARE), is uniquely suited to her work as a chronicler of American dialects: she was born in Ohio, grew up in California, went to college in Idaho, and to graduate school in Georgia.
		She has served as President of the Dictionary Society of North America and is currently President of the American Dialect Society.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE/wordpower/dare.html (460 words)

	Harvard University Press: Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III, I-O by Frederic G. Cassidy
		This dictionary examines those words and phrases--not the everyday ones we all use, like hand or smile or part-time…DARE is especially revealing; it shows, almost instantly, that in this country language is not fodder for regulation; language simply is, period.
		Because these volumes are the most complete lexical records we have of the American experience, much of the history and contemporary condition of American society can be found in their pages...We are very fortunate to have DARE; it is not a dictionary; it is a national treasure.
		Frederic G. Cassidy was Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/CASDI3.html?show=reviews (802 words)

	Dictionary of American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles was a dictionary of terms coined in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944.
		Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it was begun in 1925 by William A. Craigie.
		The work was one of the sources for the Random House Dictionary of the English Language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictionary_of_American_English (149 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I, A-C (Dictionary of American Regional English): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk (Dictionary of American Regional English) by Joan Houston Hall
		Long in gestation, having been an original goal of the American Dialect Society in 1889, DARE is the result of 25 years of sustained work by its editor, with support from the NEH, universities, institutions, hundreds of volunteers, and 2,777 informants.
		Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I, A-C (Dictionary of American Regional English) by Frederic Gomes Cassidy
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-American-Regional-English-C/dp/0674205111 (1468 words)

	LLT Vol 10 Num 1: REVIEW OF THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This dictionary for intermediate-level learners of English has the clear, uncrowded page format we have come to expect in ESL dictionaries, as well as many of the other welcome features of its competitors, such as color print and a wealth of illustrations.
		For example, the paper dictionary and Genie alike provide many clear and useful illustrations with their definitions, but not all words pictured in the paper version are also pictured in the computerized version, and the choice of omissions does not always make sense.
		Marlise Horst is Assistant Professor at the TESL Centre of the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal.
	llt.msu.edu /vol10num1/review2/default.html (1952 words)

	JS Online: Dictionary paints American portrait
		The dictionary has also helped researchers discover errors in the scoring of a test given to thousands of Americans to help determine whether they suffer from aphasia (loss of the ability to use or understand words).
		Still, American English continues to evolve, and as it does the dictionary becomes to a large extent a snapshot of the language as it was in the latter half of the 20th century.
		His faith in the dictionary is shared by the editors in Madison, who have reserved space in their lives for the work of completing the project.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/oct01/dictionary.asp (7584 words)

	English-American Dictionary - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the actual alphabet, the letter "Z" is replaced by the English Power Rangers villain "Zed" (a corruption of "izzard"), although the English rarely use this odd letter anymore.
		The English are also known for adding an "R" to wourds that do not require one, in addition to removing "R"s from woods that are supposed to have them.
		OE The English do not simply add a U to every occurence of the letter O. Sometimes the letter O appears by itself, usually in words that were not designed for it.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/English-American_Dictionary (1311 words)

	Amazon.de: Cambridge Dictionary of American English (Dictionary): English Books: Sidney I. Landau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While the American dictionary does have fewer entries than the International, for learners of American English as a second or foreign language, it gives very good coverage of the vocabulary that most learners will want to look up.
		Given that the dictionary is designed specifically for learners of English as a second or foreign language, these features are very useful.
		Still, this is practically the only dictionary I found where I can hear the words as well as lookup the meaning, so I commend Cambridge for putting it together.
	amazon.de /Cambridge-Dictionary-American-English-Sidney/dp/0521477611 (1084 words)

	The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 125,000 words and their transcriptions.
		This format is particularly useful for speech recognition and synthesis, as it has mappings from words to their pronunciations in the given phoneme set.
		Note that this dictionary is not in the format you want to use for the Sphinx decoder.
	www.speech.cs.cmu.edu /cgi-bin/cmudict (142 words)

	Amazon.ca: NTC's American English Learner's Dictionary: Books: Richard A. Spears (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most ESL dictionaries originate in the UK?the excellent Cambridge International Dictionary of English (Cambridge Univ., 1995) is typical?and cover the vocabulary of both major branches of English, British and American, which can be confusing to learners on this side of the Atlantic.
		This simplified dictionary of American English, containing over 22,000 words, phrases, and idioms, is an essential reference for English learners at all levels.
		I think it is a good dictionary for english as second language students.
	www.amazon.ca /NTCs-American-English-Learners-Dictionary/dp/0844258598 (679 words)

	English Language Dictionaries
		Searchable dictionaries from Cambridge University Press: Cambridge International Dictionary of English; Cambridge Learners Dictionary; Cambridge Dictionary of American English; Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms; Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
		Chambers' 21st Century Dictionary is the essential guide to English as it is written and spoken now.
		Since it was first published in 1981, The Macquarie Dictionary has become firmly established as the record of Australian English.
	library.albany.edu /reference/englishdictionaries.html (361 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Basic Dictionary of American English, Webster's New World Ser.
		Description: Defining 49,000 Of the most commonly used words in the American English lexicon, this new dictionary has been created especially for beginning readers and to help the approximately 1.8 million people in the U.S. who are currently enrolled in basic skills literary programs.
		The dictionary defines these words in clear, easy-to-understand language, using only words that are themselves defined in the dictionary, but never condescending to the adult reader.
		Primarily created for native English speakers, it is also a valuable reference for more advanced readers of English as a second language.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=30559767&srchTerms=0028623819&mediaType=1&srchType=ISBN (340 words)

	Pittsburgh Speech & Society
		Origin: In British English, a 'jag' is a prickly tendril.
		Origin: In British English, the 'neb' is the nose or snout of an animal.
		Origin: This grammatical construction was brought to the American colonies by Scotch-Irish immigrants in the 18th century.
	english.cmu.edu /pittsburghspeech/alphabetH_O.html (543 words)

	Talk:English-American Dictionary - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This article misses one of the more important differences, that "a billion gallons" doesn't mean the same to speakers of American as it does to English speakers.
		A proper gallon is 4.5 litres, not 3.8 liters, and it's a bloody pity that America has yet to grasp the concept.
		The joke is that American is not proper English.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Talk:English-American_Dictionary (334 words)

	English Department, UW-Madison
		The English Language and Linguistics program includes a linguistics track in the undergraduate English major, a Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Certificate, an MA in Applied English Linguistics and PhD in English Language and Linguistics.
		The English as a Second Language Program teaches some 1,500 international students a year, helping to support the campus's commitment to linking the University to all parts of the world.
		We are also the proud home to the world-famous Dictionary of American Regional English.
	www.wisc.edu /english (436 words)

	American English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American Dialect Society - scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
		Dictionary of American Regional English - specializes in regional words and phrases.A reference tool unlike any other.
		Cornerstone's Canadian English Page - This page explains the major differences between Canadian English and its British and American compatriots, follows the debate over colour and color, talks about place names and French, then looks at some unique Canadian vocabulary and ends with a short essay on pronunciation and regional variations.
	www.iuo.it /cilaweb/sitocila/lingue/inglese/indirizzario/varietiesofenglish/american/americanenglish.html (662 words)

	FREELANG - American-English and English-American Free Dictionary
		The latest English dictionary from ECTACO is a powerhouse of a resource tool packed with everything you need to make studying a breeze.
		Another invaluable resource for anyone studying English or preparing for their SATs is the SAT Words tutor.
		Providing English speech synthesis and transcriptions for all words, it is made up of five fascinating, entertaining and effective learning games.
	www.freelang.net /dictionary/american.html (401 words)

	BlackBerry Dictionaries and Language Learning Software. MSDict Cambridge Dictionary of American English (BlackBerry) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MSDict Cambridge Dictionary of American English (BlackBerry) 3.50 for BlackBerry
		MSDict Cambridge Dictionary of American English (BlackBerry) 3.50
		Based on a 200 million-word corpus of American English that shows which words and phrases are really used in current American English, and what people really mean when they say or write those words
	pda-dictionary.net /BlackBerry/MSDict-Cambridge-Dictionary-of-American-English-(BlackBerry) (235 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . DARE \| PBS
		The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) has been publishing words, pronunciations and phrases from regions across the U.S. since 1985.
		The American Dialect Society Dedicated to the study of regional American speech
		Language Use in Your Town: The Modern Language Association's new Language Map displays the locations and approximate numbers of speakers of the 30 languages most commonly spoken in the United States.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/DARE (191 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk (Dictionary of American Regional English): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American English Dictionary — We have a number of American English Dictionaries including the Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary.
		American English — Free Demo-Learn correct spoken English pronunciation with powerful video training program.
		Dictionary of American Regional English by Cassidy et al.
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-American-Regional-English-P-Sk/dp/0674008847 (1261 words)

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