This 2, 662-page revised edition of the standard unabridged dictionary of American English was emphatically descriptivist.
McCrum shows how disgruntled North American subjects of British rule deliberately forged a distinctively American English.
Most of those submitted were neither particularly American nor original to American English.
They contained lots of spelling errors and odd wording choices that would make more sense in Chinese than American English.
This extraordinary record of the diversity of American English is the longest continuously-funded project of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.
An American English teacher gave Mr. Fu the biography of a Chinese intellectual, Xi Shengmo, who converted to Christianity and did good works.
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The result is that each entry is an individual history of the word, from its earliest known occurrence throughout its lifespan in American English.
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English is, in truth, a family: American English and British English are siblings from the same parentage, neither is the parent of the other.
As "American English" is my first language, I agreed with her.
When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
His name is Khalfi Mustapha and, in perfect American English, he explained that he learned about democracy while interning in the congressional office of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).
When Matthew Engel wrote here earlier this month about the impact of American English on British English, he restarted a debate about the changing nature of language which ended in dozens of suggestions from readers of their own loathed Americanisms.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Radiohead notwithstanding, the gulf between American and English music tastes is wider than ever.
After 50 years of research and editing, the Dictionary of American Regional English has reached the letter Z.
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Bernard Berenson, who over a lifetime of connoisseurship, disdained German, American and English academics, just as I avoid market pundits.
In sequential cultures (like North American, English, German, Swedish, and Dutch), businesspeople give full attention to one agenda item after another.
Ben Hills is an Australian investigative journalist who says he interviewed more than sixty Japanese, American and English sources for his unauthorised biography of the troubled princess.
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The Dictionary of American Regional English project is part of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Joan Houston Hall is chief editor.
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Heading a team of gifted American and English artists, Lycett experimented with ceramic bodies and glazes, while designing a range of sumptuous vases, ewers and other large showpieces that were retailed nationwide to the carriage trade.
On the United Flavours of the World tour, I was chauffeured with a bus of about 25 food lovers, led by Maeve herself, to Sydney suburbs I had never heard of on a quest to find the best South American butchers and pastry shops, Portuguese delis, Vietnamese restaurants and desserts of Lebanese, American and English origin.
With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
British colonialism firmly established English in the territories that now make up the United States, but the distinctions between American and British English are as important as the shared heritage.
The genius of PressTV is its generic name, slick production values and the American-accented English of its hosts, which leads the casual viewer to believe they are just another American cable outlet.
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The nation's schools, for instance, are stocked with American-missionary English teachers--cheap labor.
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And how does it cope with British, North American and Antipodean English?
The SaypU spelling of "top" and "run" have had to be tweaked to take into account the different vowel sounds of American and British English.
"He was my best friend, " says Huang in his American-accented English.
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