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North American English

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North American English

The variety of the English language used in the United States of America and Canada.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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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

As it is used in Costa Rica today, mae is roughly equivalent to "dude" in modern North American English. Source: Internet

In North American English, a bubble refers to the protrusion that occurs when one's body (or other oily substance) contacts the lamp. Source: Internet

Received Pronunciation (RP) is generally viewed as a 19th-century development and is not reflected in North American English dialects, which are based on 18th-century English. Source: Internet

Similarly, the raising of main in North American English changes the first vowel in writer and causes it to be pronounced differently from the first vowel in rider. Source: Internet

Some terms in North American English are used almost exclusively in Canada and the United States (for example, the terms diaper and gasoline are widely used instead of nappy and petrol ). Source: Internet

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