American English
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- noun
- /əˈmɛrɪkən ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
- US
:
inglés americano
- You don't understand American English?
- Standard American English
- American English speakers
- speak American English
So has brought all of Claude's work into American English and much of Anne Marie's.
- So has brought all of Claude's work into American English and much of Anne Marie's.
- The difference is most obvious in the word not, which in American English sounds more like not.
- And I think it's just they don't speak American English.
- So you know, our English is different than American English, right?
- I've been complaining that I call out a lot of the contradictions in British pronunciation while ignoring that American English also has the same contradictions.
- Which in American English, gross, is disgusting.
Examples
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But he argued that these words captured local variations of language, a vital part of what made American English unique.
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So in American English, the tongue starts down in the front and moves up in the back.
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The difference is most obvious in the word not, which in American English sounds more like not.
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"Well, they understood everything I said." "Because you talk normal American English."
Fiction book (1992) -
"Sometimes even Americans are asked if they teach 'proper English' or American English."
Academic text (1994) -
All of the children were reported to be monolingual, native speakers of Standard American English.
Academic text (2015) -
By midcentury, the American mystery genre was generally being written in American English.
Fiction book (2001) -
The majority of the participants spoke with an Upper Midwest dialect of American English.
Academic text (2012) -
But I believe that both spellings are acceptable in American English, and they're pronounced the same way.
Blog text (11) -
The difference is most obvious in the word not, which in American English sounds more like not.
Synonyms
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The form of English spoken and written in the United States
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English that people speak and write in the United States with different words and sounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'American' (connected with the United States) + 'English' (the language) yields 'the variety of English used in the United States.' This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common nationality + language construction that a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand.
Etymology
American English came from people in the 'United States' using English in their own way, changing some words, spellings, and ways of speaking. That's why American English means the version of English with its own vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation used in the 'United States'.