North American English
Proper noun
Meaning
North American English
The variety of the English language used in the United States of America and Canada.
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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.
As it is used in Costa Rica today, mae is roughly equivalent to "dude" in modern North American English.
In North American English, a bubble refers to the protrusion that occurs when one's body (or other oily substance) contacts the lamp.
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.
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.
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 ).