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	American English - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		American English (AmE) is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America.
		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.
		English words that arose in the U.S. A number of words that arose in the United States have become common, to varying degrees, in English as it is spoken internationally.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/m/e/American_English_16a3.html (1788 words)

	American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America.
		Newfoundland English and the dialect of New Britain, Connecticut are notable exceptions.
		Americanisms formed by alteration of existing words include notably pesky (from pest), phony (from fawney), rambunctious (from rumbustious), pry (as in "pry open," from prize), putter (verb, from potter), buddy (from brother), sundae (from Sunday), and skeeter (from mosquito).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_english (2917 words)

	American English - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The conservatism of American English is largely the result of the fact that it represents a mixture of various dialects from the British Isles.
		American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from English as used elsewhere (especially British English), some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the spelling used in Britain at the time.
		English words that arose in the U.S. A number of words that arose in the United States have become common, to varying degrees, in English as it is spoken internationally.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/AmE (1896 words)

	American English information - Search.com
		American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America.
		American English has many spelling differences from English as used elsewhere (especially British English), some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the spelling used in Britain at the time.
		English words that revived in the U.S. A number of words and meanings that originated in Middle English or Early Modern English and that always have been in everyday use in the U.S. dropped out in most varieties of British English.
	www.search.com /reference/American_English (2011 words)

	The Ultimate English language - American History Information Guide and Reference
		English has lingua franca (diplomatic language) status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries and the United States beginning in the 20th century.
		English is descended from the language spoken by Germanic tribes that migrated to the land that would become known as England.
		English is the primary language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua, St.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/English_language (2920 words)

	AFT - Publications - American Educator - Spring 2006 - Building Knowledge
		Vocabulary growth is a slow process that gradually accumulates a very large number of words and, therefore, must be fostered intensively in the earliest grades if we are to bring all children to proficiency in reading as quickly as possible.
		Vocabulary growth in the typical school is similar to the growth of money in an interest-bearing bank account.
		In general, the de facto curriculum in the American school is defined by the textbooks that are used and by the selections within them that are made according to the tastes and beliefs of individual teachers.
	www.aft.org /pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/spring06/hirsch.htm (9574 words)

	Regional vocabularies of American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Below are lists outlining regional vocabularies in the main dialect areas of the United States.
		A term featured on a list may or may not be found throughout the region concerned, and may or may be not recognized by speakers outside of said region.
		The Lakes: (general) The region of Northwestern Minnesota most heavily affected by the most recent ice age, known for its great number of large, shallow lakes and widely used as a summer playground for affluent Twin Citians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regional_vocabularies_of_American_English (1654 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/General American
		General American (sometimes called Standard Midwestern, Standard Spoken American English or American Broadcast English) is the accent of American English perceived by Americans to be most "neutral" and free of regional characteristics.
		The General American accent is not thought of as a linguistic standard in the sense that Received Pronunciation (RP) has historically been the standard, prestige variant in England, but its speakers are perceived as "accentless" by most Americans.
		Unlike RP, General American is characterized by the merger of the vowels of words like father and bother, flapping, and the reduction of vowel contrasts before [ɹ].
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/General_American (984 words)

	sociology - American English
		American English or U.S. English is the diverse form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America.
		American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British English, some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the English spelling used by British English at the time.
		Americans are likelier than Britons to name a stream whose breadth or volume is judged insufficient for it to be a river or a creek.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/American_English (5167 words)

	AskOxford: Types of World English
		In vocabulary there is a lot of US influence: Canadians use billboard, gas, truck, and wrench rather than hoarding, lorry, petrol, and spanner; but on the other hand they agree with the British in saying blinds, braces, porridge, and tap rather than shades, suspenders, oatmeal, and faucet.
		English is the first language of only about 10 per cent of the population, but the second language of many others.
		The role of English within the complex multilingual society of India is far from straightforward: together with Hindi it is used across the country, but it can also be a speaker's first, second, or third language, and its features may depend heavily on their ethnicity and caste.
	www.askoxford.com /globalenglish/types/?view=uk (659 words)

	CSISS Classics - Hans Kurath: Linguistic Atlas of the United States
		Hans Kurath, a native of Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1907, was the leading figure in American geographical linguistics, a field of study dedicated to the identification and mapping of distinctive speech or dialect areas.
		Kurath's chief research interest was historical linguistics and his primary goal was to use the Linguistic Atlas to reconstruct the evolution of American English from the relatively "pure" forms of English brought to the United States by early settlers to the regional dialects that existed in the contemporary United States.
		By plotting regional differences in vocabulary and pronunciation on maps, Kurath and the other researchers were assembling what they hoped was a visual record of the social processes that had transformed American English over the past 200 years.
	www.csiss.org /classics/content/17 (711 words)

	Regional Patterns of American Speech. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although they also gave English ordinary household words such as chowder, pumpkin, sashay, shanty, and shivaree, the enterprising French illustrate their experience in a distinctive set of loans.
		As the English, Dutch, and Swedes struggled to control the seaboard, the French ranged across the interior and left their mark with the names of places at Bienville, Cape Girardeau, Prairie du Chien, and Sault Sainte Marie.
		From early Pennsylvania, American English probably received smearcase (cottage cheese), panhas (scrapple, from German dialectal pann, pan + has, hare), rainworm (earthworm), and possibly George Washington’s most familiar title, The Father of His Country, which first appeared as Der Landes Vater on a Nord Amerikanische Kalender for 1779.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/61/5a.html (773 words)

	Do You Speak American . About the Broadcast \| PBS
		For many who hold this view, English should be spoken in a way that reflects the way it is written and with pronunciations that sound “neutral.” For others, the style of English they speak is a way of identifying with home, peers, or a certain way of life.
		In fact, Black English has roots as deep and a grammar as consistent as Scottish, Irish, or any other of the Englishes spoken around the world.” What is Baugh referring to when he says “roots as deep and a grammar as consistent as.
		Regional speech varieties Varieties of a language that exist in different geographical areas, often referred to by the general population as an accent.
	www.pbs.org /speak/about/guide (6863 words)

	Evolution's Bookstore (in association with Amazon.com)
		3: A Vocabulary of the Unami Jargon by Thomas Campanius Holm
		13: A Vocabulary of Roanoke by Thomas Hariot et al.
		33: Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee by Luigi Castiglioni
	www.evolpub.com /bookstore/EvolstoreAmz.html (2357 words)

	British and American English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is confronted with two English dialects to learn: British English and American English (leaving aside Australian, Indian, South African English etc.) And despite the many cross-cultural influences, it seems that the vocabularies, spellings and pronunciations of these two dialects are diverging year by year.
		To be consistent in his use of English and, more importantly, to be understood, the non-native speaker needs to know which words have distinct meanings and pronunciations depending on whether they are used by a Briton or an American.
		As a percentage of the total English vocabulary the number of words which are used only in one or the other country is very small, but the problem for learners of English is that these words are among the most common in the language.
	esl.fis.edu /parents/easy/aebe.htm (1552 words)

	The American Dialect Homepage
		Welcome to the American Dialect homepage, an effort to bridge the gap between the scholarly and literary worlds of dialectology.
		American Dialect Web Links Over 180 links to vocabularies, pronunciation guides, and general articles dealing with regional dialects of the English language in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies.
		Regional varieties of English outside of North America, including the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
	www.evolpub.com /Americandialects/AmDialhome.html (524 words)

	Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . Standard American . Presidential . Voices \| PBS
		He was a great advocate of neology, the creation of new words; he thought new words were needed for the new flora and fauna of the New World, as well as for the new political order established by the creation of the United States.
		Among the more than one hundred words for which Jefferson provides earliest evidence in the Oxford English Dictionary are scientific terms such as odometer and megalonyx (a fossil sloth); homely terms such as breadstuff; political terms such as Anglomania, Anglophobia, and electioneering; and everyday words such as sanction ("approve"), indecipherable, and belittle.
		Allan Metcalf is professor of English at MacMurray College and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society.
	www.pbs.org /speak/seatosea/standardamerican/presidential/voices (2011 words)

	Mencken, H.L. 1921. The American Language
		This study shows a certain utility.… But its chief excuse is its human interest, for it prods deeply into national idiosyncracies and ways of mind, and that sort of prodding is always entertaining.—
		This classic was written to clarify the discrepancies between British and American English and to define the distinguishing characteristics of American English.
		Mencken’s groundbreaking study was undoubtedly the most scientific linguistic work on the American language to date and continues to serve as a definitive resource in the field.
	www.bartleby.com /185 (148 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk (Dictionary of American Regional English): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But while they are discovering that a blind tiger is a place to buy and drink moonshine, or that there are 176 names for dust balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship.
		Language in Society : 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.
		The Dictionary of American Regional English--repository of the most delicious dialect sources and the most colorful evidence of the Americanization of the English language--has now covered letters P to Sk...[This] is the penultimate (one more to go) volume in the set that no library can afford to absquatulate.
	www.amazon.com /Dictionary-American-Regional-English-P-Sk/dp/0674008847 (1018 words)

	Introduction to Spanish / English Translation
		Particularly strong inclusion of "americanismos," or, Latin American Spanish usage and definitions; prologue by Gabriel García Márquez.
		Bilingual Spanish-English dictionary covers vocabulary used in the areas of civil, mechanical and electrical engineering; architecture; physics; chemistry; mathematics; agriculture; machinery and machine-tools, and related specialized technical fields and their vocabularies.
		Includes useful "regional labels," indicating in which countries or regions a certain term is used, and how.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~savega/trad.html (714 words)

	E396L, Language Politics: Henkel
		American Dialect Web Links Over 180 links to vocabularies, pronunciation guides, and general articles dealing with regional dialects of the English language in the United States,
		American English and a regular feature, "Among the New Words." If your local public or university
		American English in general, but also concerns itself with the educational and political concepts
	www.en.utexas.edu /classes/henkel/e396l/396Lprivate/LectureNotes.html (744 words)

	Dictionary of American Regional English: D-H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities
		English language; Dialects; United States; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
		Amazon.com: Volume II is every bit as excellent as A-C, and as thought provoking.
	isbn.nu /067420512X (418 words)

	Introduction to Spanish / English Translation
		Unabridged bilingual English-Spanish dictionary with generally good descriptive definitions; with regional labels, pronunciation guides, grammar guides, verb tables, and sample phrases for some entries.
		GEN PC4854.C8 O7 Dictionary of Cuban regionalisms and slang, with many lengthy definitions.
		From the editors of the now-defunct Cuban American revista Generation-ñ.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~dcoffey/spa351.htm (978 words)

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