American English
- Cran, William (Producer, Director, Writer); Buchanan, Christopher (Producer); & MacNeil, Robert (Writer). (2005). Do you speak American? [Documentary]. New York: Center for New American Media.
- Kolker, Andrew; & Alvarez, Louis (Producers, Directors). (1987). American tongues: A documentary about the way people talk in the U.S. [Documentary]. Hohokus, NJ: Center for New American Media.
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Notes
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en-USis the language code for American English , as defined by ISO standards (see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and Internet standards (see IETF language tag). - ^ Crystal, David (1997). English as a Global Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53032-6.
- ^ North American English (Trudgill, p. 2) is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada.
- ^ Trudgill, pp. 46–47.
- ^ Labov, p. 48.
- ^ According to Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. For speakers who merge caught and cot, /ɔ/ is to be understood as the vowel they have in both caught and cot.
- ^ [1], [2], [3]
- ^ A few of these are now chiefly found, or have been more productive, outside of the U.S.; for example, jump, "to drive past a traffic signal;" block meaning "building," and center, "central point in a town" or "main area for a particular activity" (cf. Oxford English Dictionary).
- ^ The Maven's Word of the Day, Random House. Retrieved February 8, 2007.
- ^ Trudgill, Peter (2004). New-Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes.
- ^ [4], [5] Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved April 24, 2007.
- ^ [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27]
- ^ a b Trudgill, p. 69.
- ^ [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]
- ^ British author George Orwell (in English People, 1947, cited in OED s.v. lose) criticized an alleged "American tendency" to "burden every verb with a preposition that adds nothing to its meaning (win out, lose out, face up to, etc.)."
- ^ Possible entries for pavement
- ^ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [41] [42] [43]. Retrieved March 23, 2007.
- ^ Cf. Trudgill, p.42.
- ^ Algeo, John (2006). British or American English?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37993-8.
- ^ Peters, Pam (2004). The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-62181-X, pp. 34 and 511.
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External links
- American Regional Accent Map based on results from online quizzes
- Do You Speak American: PBS special
- Dialect Survey of the United States, by Bert Vaux et al., Harvard University. The answers to various questions about pronunciation, word use etc. can be seen in relationship to the regions where they are predominant.
- Linguistic Atlas Projects
- Phonological Atlas of North America at the University of Pennsylvania
- The American•British British•American Dictionary
- Speech Accent Archive
- World English Organization
- English Speaking Union of the United States
- British, American, Australian English - Lists and Online Exercises
- Listen to spoken American English (midwest}
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- The Great Pop Vs. Soda Controversy
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