Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia - American English
American English (AmE) is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. It is estimated that approxima...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Phonology
In many ways, compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. The conservatism of American English is lar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Differences In British English And American English
Main article: American and British English differences American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British Englis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences
This article outlines the differences between American English, the form of the English language spoken in the United States, and Commonw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English
African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Black English, Black Vernacular, or Black English Vernacular (BEV), is a type of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences
The differences in the spellings of British English and American English are as follows: Many of the differences were introduced into the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia - Canadian English
Canadian English is the form of English language used in Canada, spoken as a first or second language by over 25 million – or 85 percen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biscuit: Encyclopedia - Biscuit
A biscuit is an edible snack. The exact meaning varies in different parts of the world. The origin of the word biscuit is from a Middle F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cot Furniture: Encyclopedia - Cot Furniture
A cot is a small bed (called a crib in American English) specifically for babies and infants. A crib can also refer to a stand that conta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British English: Encyclopedia - British English
British English (BrE) is a term used to differentiate the form of the English language used in the United Kingdom from other forms of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Sign Language: Encyclopedia - American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL, also Amslan obs., Ameslan obs.) is the dominant sign language in the United States, English-speaking Canada,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bulldog: Encyclopedia - Bulldog
The Bulldog, often called the English Bulldog, is a medium-sized dog breed that originated in England. Bulldog - Appearance. The ideal s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brickwork: Encyclopedia - Brickwork
Brickwork is produced when a bricklayer uses bricks and mortar to build up structures such as walls, bridges and chimneys. (Brickwork is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apple Pie: Encyclopedia - Apple Pie
In cooking, an apple pie or apple tart is a fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples. This pastry is gener...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - General American English
Written English is standardized across the U.S., and in schools abroad specializing in American English, although it differs slightly fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern." Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern". Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Lexis
Most of the differences are in connection with concepts originating from the nineteenth century to the mid twentieth century, where new w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Writing
American and British English differences - Spelling. Main article: American and British English spelling differences Some words share...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Differences - Grammar
American and British English differences - Singular and plural for nouns. In British English, singular nouns that describe multiple pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally follows the borders of the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - South
Main article: Southern American English monophthongization of [aɪ] as [aː], for example, most dialects' "I" → "Ah" in the South. Coa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally includes the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Mid-atlantic Region
American English regional differences - Northeastern Pennsylvania. The dialect of the Wyoming Valley (including Scranton and Wilkes-Bar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Vocabularies Of American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Vocabularies Of American English - Regional Vocabulary Tables
See: Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cot Furniture: Encyclopedia Ii - Cot Furniture - Cots In American English
A cot (as used in American English) is a bed which folds up, generally with the two ends coming together over the middle of the bed, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Inland North
A distinctive speech pattern was also generated by the separation of Canada from the United States, centered on the Great Lakes region. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Eastern New England
The accents of eastern New England, including those of Boston (see Boston accent), New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine (also called Do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - History And Social Context
AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but also has features of English spoken in the Britis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - History And Social Context
AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but it also has features of English spoken in Great B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - The Midland
West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the broad zone of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two discrete s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - Grammatical Features
African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [aɪ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Midwest
American English regional differences - North Central American English. (Minnesota (esp. rural), Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Stress
American and British English pronunciation differences - French stress. For many loanwords from French where AmE has final-syllable str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Affixes
American and British English pronunciation differences - -ary -ery -ory -bury -berry -mony. Where the syllable preceding -ary,-ery or -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian English - Influences: British And American
The form of English that Indians (and other subcontinentals) are taught in schools is essentially British English, especially Scottish En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Spelling Differences - Latin-derived Spellings
American and British English spelling differences - -our / -or. Many words ending in -or in American English have an additional vowel, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biscuit: Encyclopedia Ii - Biscuit - American English Meaning
In American English, however, "biscuit" means a form of bread similar to a roll made with baking powder or baking soda as a rising agent ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African American Vernacular English: Encyclopedia Ii - African American Vernacular English - Grammatical Features
African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [ɑ�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Spelling Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Spelling Differences - Greek-derived Spellings
American and British English spelling differences - -ise / -ize. American spelling accepts only colonize, harmonize, and realize. These...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Varying Concepts
International English - Universality and flexibility. International English sometimes refers to English as it is actually being used an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metrified English Unit: Encyclopedia Ii - Metrified English Unit - American Independence
[1] At the First Congress, which met in 1789 when the metric system had not yet been developed in France, the system of units to be used ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Vocabulary
Where Canadian English shares vocabulary with other English dialects, it tends to share most with American English. For instance, automot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American And British English Pronunciation Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American And British English Pronunciation Differences - Weak Forms
Some function words have a weak form in AmE, with a reduced vowel used when the word is unstressed, but always use the full vowel in RP. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - New York City And Northern New Jersey
Main article: New York-New Jersey English As in Eastern New England, the accents of New York City and northern New Jersey are traditional...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Northern England
English English - General features. There are several accent features which are common to most of the accents of northern England. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Non-u.s. English
Sometimes International English is used to refer to a general standard that is based on Commonwealth and British English, rather than U.S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Words Having Different Meanings In British And American English/rewrite: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Words Having Different Meanings In British And American English/rewrite - R
a sequence or scale between limits a place where shooting is practised an area over which a species of animal or plant is found waterproo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Historical Context
The modern concept of International English does not exist in isolation, but is the product of centuries of development of the English la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of United States Over-the-air Television Networks: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of United States Over-the-air Television Networks - English-language American Commercial Over-the-air Television Networks
...additionally, several of the cable-oriented theme channels (e.g. music or shopping channels) have obtained broadcast clearances, usual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian English - An Indian English Grammar
Standard English in India is prized and found plentifully in educated circles and higher Indian writing in English. Middle and upper-clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - International Organisations
There are three major English varieties used as standards by international organisations: International English - British English with -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Spelling
Canadian spelling of the English language combines British and American rules. Most notably, French-derived words that in American Englis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International English: Encyclopedia Ii - International English - Modern Global Language
There is a distinction between English as spoken as a native language around the world (in the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia and so ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Regional Variation In Pronunciation
Canadian English - Toronto. The English spoken in Toronto is closely related to the midwestern American accent, but with a more literal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Canadian English: Encyclopedia Ii - Canadian English - Pronunciation
The primary aspect of the Canadian English accent is a feature called "Canadian raising", where diphthongs are raised before voiceless co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Biscuit: Encyclopedia Ii - Biscuit - British English Meaning
In British English, Australian English and New Zealand English, a biscuit is a hard baked product which in North America may be called a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Americanism General: Encyclopedia Ii - Americanism General - Explanation
Languages are not static. They evolve to meet new situations and, when one group devises a new word, others may borrow it. Hence, English...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - æ-tensing
In the sociolinguistics of English, æ-tensing is a process that occurs in some accents of North American English by which the vowel [æ]...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International Phonetic Alphabet For English: Encyclopedia Ii - International Phonetic Alphabet For English - Suprasegmentals
The suprasegmental symbols are called that because they apply to more than one segment (vowel or consonant). In English, the relevant sup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Short A: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Short A - Bad-lad Split
The bad-lad split is a phonemic split of the Early Modern English short vowel phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/. This spli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Bulldog: Encyclopedia Ii - American Bulldog - History
In England during the 17th and 18th centuries, the now extinct Old English Bulldog's were used on farms to catch and hold escaped livesto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Sign Language: Encyclopedia Ii - American Sign Language - Writing Systems
ASL is often glossed with English words written in all capital letters. This is however a method used simply to teach the structure of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General American: Encyclopedia Ii - General American - Phonology
General American - Consonants. A table containing the consonant phonemes is given below The phoneme /ʍ/ is present only in varieties t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anglicisation: Encyclopedia Ii - Anglicisation - Anglicisation In Language
There are two primary types of Anglicisation in language: Anglicising non-English words for use in the English language, and Anglicising ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - Subracial Ethnic Differentiation
Similarly, some speakers claim that there are differences among speakers of European American New York English that break down along ethn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British English: Encyclopedia Ii - British English - -ise Versus -ize
Words of the sort organize/organise and their derivatives can be spelt with either s or z in British English. The -ize forms are promoted...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - The Start Of The War
Tensions between the Filipinos and the American soldiers on the islands existed because of the conflicting movements for independence and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Americans Opposition To The War
Some Americans, notably William Jennings Bryan, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, and other members of the American Anti-Imperialist League, s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - The Capture Of Aguinaldo And Downfall Of The Philippine Army
The Philippine Army continued suffering defeats time and time again by the better armed Americans when fighting conventional warfare, for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - American Escalation
A large American military force (126,000 soldiers) was needed to occupy the country, and would be regularly engaged in war against Filipi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Quotes
In the fall of 1899, MacArthur, who was still loyal to General Otis said to reporter H. Irving Hannock: When I first started in against t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - Macrosocial Extensions
The dialect is closely confined to the geographically small but densely populated New York City Dialect Region, which consists of the cit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Quotes
In the fall of 1899, MacArthur, who was still loyal to General Otis said to reporter H. Irving Hannock: When I first started in against t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - The New Jersey Accent
Generally, the so-called Jersey accent or North Jersey accent spoken in northern New Jersey is somewhat closer to General American than t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Quotes
In the fall of 1899, MacArthur, who was still loyal to General Otis, said to reporter H. Irving Hannock: When I first started in against ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Quotes
In the fall of 1899, MacArthur, who was still loyal to General Otis said to reporter H. Irving Hannock: When I first started in against t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Sign Language: Encyclopedia Ii - American Sign Language - History Of Asl
In the United States, as in most of the world, hearing families with deaf children often employ ad-hoc home sign for simple communication...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General American: Encyclopedia Ii - General American - Regional Home Of General American
The Telsur Project[1] of William Labov and others examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - General Features
The British Isles is one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the English-speaking world. Significant changes in dialect (pronunci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish In The United States - Varieties
The influence of English on these varieties of American Spanish is very important. Spanglish is the name for the combination of using Spa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - The Guerrilla Phase
As of 1900, Aguinaldo ordered his army to engage in guerrilla warfare, a means of operation which better suited them and made American oc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Consequences
During the war, 4,324 American soldiers were killed and 2,818 were wounded. There were also 2,000 casualties that the Philippine Constabu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philippine-american War: Encyclopedia Ii - Philippine-american War - Consequences
During the war, 4,324 American soldiers were killed and 2,818 were wounded. There were also 2,000 casualties that the Philippine Constabu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metrified English Unit: Encyclopedia Ii - Metrified English Unit - Royal System
One of the earliest still known and most extensive proposals of a metrified Imperial system is from the early 1820s and is attributed to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Southern England
In general, Southern English accents are distinguished from Northern English accents primarily by the use of broad A (that is, words like...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Radio And Tv Featuring Regional English Accents
Misrepresentations can also appear in the media. The soap "Emmerdale" is set in Yorkshire, yet some of the actors have Lancashire accents...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Languages In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Languages In The United States - New American Languages
Several languages have been born on American soil, including creoles and sign languages. Languages in the United States - Gullah. Gulla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metrified English Unit: Encyclopedia Ii - Metrified English Unit - Isolated
Besides redefinitions of the whole system, which try to keep the values close and the system immanent factors intact, there were and are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English English: Encyclopedia Ii - English English - Midlands
English English - West Midlands. The best known accents in the West Midlands area are the Birmingham accents (see "Brummie") and the B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - English Palladian Revival Neo-palladian
The baroque style, popular in Europe, was never truly to the English taste. It was quickly superseded when, in the first quarter of the 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spanish In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Spanish In The United States - Future Of Spanish In The United States
Generally, US Hispanics (13.4% of the population in 2002) are bilingual to some degree. A study by Simmons Market Research found that 19%...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Colonization Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - English Colonization Of The Americas - British North America
The English established colonies along the east coast of North America, from Newfoundland in the north, to as far as Florida in the south...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - North American Palladianism
The amateur architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) once referred to Palladio's "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" as his bible. Jeffer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Colonization Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - English Colonization Of The Americas - English North America
Main articles: Colonial America and History of Canada The Kingdom of England established colonies along the east coast of North America, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Colonization Of The Americas: Encyclopedia Ii - English Colonization Of The Americas - British North America
The Kingdom of Great Britain acquired the French colony of New France and the Spanish colony of Florida in 1763. New France became the Ca...   » Read the article

Dictionary - The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language: Encyclopedia - The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by Boston publisher Houghton...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Oxford English Dictionary: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxford English Dictionary - Spelling
The OED lists British spellings for headwords first (for example, labour and centre), followed by other variants (labor, center, etc.). O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - Regional Differences
Main article: American English regional differences Spoken American English is not homogeneous throughout the country, and various region...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English: Encyclopedia Ii - American English - English Words Obsolete Outside The U.s.
A number of words that originated in the English of the British Isles are still in everyday use in North America, but are no longer used ...   » Read the article