• The English language as spoken and written in the US.

  Example sentencesExamples

  • Stone was originally the son of a Marine stationed in Japan, and learned the language as a toddler, in addition to American English.
  • So when you actually look at the future of the language, then I think we will gradually see a lessening of the influence of American English and an evening out of other forms of English.
  • It is often said, usually by Americans, that the spoken English of Shakespeare's day was closer in sound to present-day American English than it was to current British ‘received pronunciation’.
  • If the English exams concentrated more on American English than on British English, she says, her students would do better.
  • The differences in words and meanings of words between British English and American English are a constant source of interest and amusement to me.
  • Twelve business telephone conversations were analyzed in order to detect intercultural differences between speakers of Finnish and speakers of American English.
  • The researchers added that the finding held true regardless of whether the language spoken tends to emphasize nouns, as does American English, or verbs, as does Korean.
  • If you don't know those words, you will have difficulty being understood in American English.
  • Webster wanted to distinguish American English from British English by correcting irregular spellings and eliminating silent letters.
  • This derives from Beijing Mandarin and is about as similar to that dialect as American English is to British English.
  • When we do read in translation, we are normally reading books translated into standard British English or standard American English.
  • ‘They tend to use the Queen's English rather than American English,’ she says.
  • On that first day I asked if any of the kids spoke or read or understood languages other than American English.
  • I've been writing in American English so long that I have to stop and think about my audience whenever I write 'tap' or 'carpark' or 'jersey' or 'colour'.
  • Bulgarians in the United States have likewise incorporated many American English words into their daily speech.
  • This may be because these students are not native speakers of American English or do not reside in the United States.
  • Australian English is different from British and American English but does not vary much regionally.
  • It does feel strange having people arguing about the effect of English on American English.
  • Today Continental European languages are borrowing words from American English.
  • The speech recognition system was created using the voices of 700 different native-level American English speakers in the U.S.

As well as differences from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, there are specifically American uses of words and meanings, principally: adoptions from languages with which the early settlers came in contact (moccasin, prairie), changes in meaning (corn, vest), survivals of 17th- and 18th-century English (gotten), and different words for the same referent (elevator for lift)