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- The meaning of AMERICANESE is american english.
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noun. Amer· i· ca· nese ə-ˌmer-ə-kə-ˈnēz. -ˌmər-, -ˌme-rə-, -ˈnēs. often disparaging. : american english. Word History. First Known Use. 1870, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler. The first known use of Americanese was in 1870. See more words from the same year. Dictionary Entries Near Americanese. American English. Americanese.
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- Andy Kirkpatrick
- Zoltán Kövecses
- Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
- Gunnel Tottie
- H.L. Mencken
"American English is, without doubt, the most influential and powerful variety of English in the world today. There are many reasons for this. First, the United States is, at present, the most powerful nation on earth and such power always brings with it influence. . . . Second, America's political influence is extended through American popular cul...
"The economical nature of American English is seen in several commonly observed linguistic processes, including the use of shorter words (math - maths, cookbook - cookery book, etc.), shorter spellings (color - colour), and shorter sentences (I'll see you Monday vs. on Monday). The differences can be captured in the form of what we call principles ...
"As some of the more remote areas of the [U.S.] are opened to intercommunication with the outside world, their distinctive language varieties, fostered in isolation and spoken by relatively small numbers of people, may be overwhelmed by encroaching dialects. . . . "Though the ultimate fate of American English dialects in the new millennium is often...
"American and British English often differ in their treatment of agreement with collective nouns, i.e. nouns with singular form but plural meaning, such as committee, family, government, enemy. In American English the singular is usually preferred with such nouns, but in British English they are sometimes followed by a verb form in the plural and a...
- "[T]he Englishman, of late, has yielded so much to American example, in vocabulary, in idiom, in spelling and even in pronunciation, that what he speaks promises to become, on some not too remote tomorrow, a kind of dialect of American, just as the language spoken by the American was once a dialect of English." (he American Language, 4th ed., 193...
- Richard Nordquist
Feb 8, 2004 · Americanese is the lame language we speak in the US of A. It's like English only English is better and spoken with an accent in England. America's version is more slang oriented. If you want to visit America you should learn how to speak Americanese.
American English or US English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United States of America. It is different in some ways from other types of English, such as British English. Most types of American English came from local dialects in England.
In linguistics, Americanization is the influence of the distinctive lexical and grammatical forms of American English on other varieties of the English language. Also called linguistic Americanization .
American language (s) may refer to: Indigenous languages of the Americas, languages spoken by indigenous peoples from North America and South America. Languages of North America, indigenous, (former) colonial, and immigrant languages spoken in North America.
List of official, national and spoken languages of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Thanks to the often violent colonization of the Americas, most of the spoken languages are the tongue of the conquerors, about 400 million people in the Americas speak Spanish as their First Language.
