American English

Speech parts

1. American English - Noun

2. American English - Adjective

3. American English - Proper noun

Meaning

the English language as used in the United States

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

american-english

Synonyms

american American language North American English United States English yankee name United States AmE NAE ae General American Americanese USEng Standard American English

Hypernyms

english English language

Hyponyms

ebonics African American Vernacular English AAVE Black English Vernacular Black English African American English

Examples

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp. Roy Blount

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English. Keyshawn Johnson

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. William Labov

Another example from English, but this time involving complete phonetic convergence as in the Russian example, is the flapping of /t/ and /d/ in some American English (described above under Biuniqueness). Source: Internet

As a result, Quebec French began to borrow from both Canadian and American English to fill accidental gaps in the lexical fields of government, law, manufacturing, business and trade. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

American elk American elm American Empire american ephedra american ermine American ermine moth