单词 | amerenglish |
释义 | Amerenglishn. = American English n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English American1787 American English1806 Yankee1824 Americanese1863 United States1871 Yankeese1883 Amerenglish1923 General American1925 northern1947 Standard American English1951 1923 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 3) Pref. p. viii The ostensible aim of the society [sc. the Society for Pure English] is to improve standard English..by restoring to it that bold and enterprising habit which marked it in Elizabethan days, but is now chiefly confined..to what the London Times has called Amerenglish. 1934 M. Cowley Exile's Return i. 30 A definite effort was being made to destroy all trace of local idiom or pronunciation and have us speak ‘correctly’—that is, in a standardized Amerenglish as colorless as Esperanto. 1979 Logophile 3 23/1 Both show some influence of Amerenglish. 1997 Ecol. Applic. 7 1235/1 We are grateful to..D. Tilles for improving the Amerenglish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1923 |
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