American Englishn.adj.
/əˌmɛrᵻk(ə)n ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/, U.S. /əˌmɛr(ə)k(ə)n ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/ A. n.
The variety of English used in the United States.
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American1787
American English1806
Yankee1824
Americanese1863
United States1871
Yankeese1883
Amerenglish1923
General American1925
northern1947
Standard American English1951
1806 N. Webster Compend. Dict. Eng. Lang. Pref. In fifty years from this time, the American-English will be spoken by more people, than all the other dialects of the language.
1880 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 273 Drawing them out of their still scholarly seclusion and rendering them familiar house-hold terms in American English.
1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. 52 The accentual features of the sentence in American English are as yet practically unknown.
2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. c1/2 Management consultants, marketing experts, lawyers and, especially in recent years, techno-geeks have cluttered American English with shorthand indecipherable to all but insiders.
B. adj.
Of or designating American English; written or spoken in American English.
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American1650
Anglo-American1810
salt river1828
Yankeea1854
Midland1873
New Yorkese1889
American English1892
Yinglish1953
Valley Girl1982
Yat1985
1892 Mod. Lang. Notes 7 392/2 He will find it distinctly stated that the ‘International’ follows an American-English standard.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 16/3 It is..distinctly American-English in its tendency towards phonetic spelling.
1958 Amer. Speech 33 47 Sometimes he finds it difficult to render the American English expression by a German equivalent.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 187 A new word, ‘wannabe’.., entered the American-English language.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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