What is American English?

Answer 1

A dialect

Answer 2

The English language as used in the United States
American English or U.S. English is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. It is the primary language used in the United States. According to the 1990 census, 97 percent of U.S. residents speak English "well" or "very well." Only 0.8% (8 people out of a thousand) speak no English at all, as compared with 3.6 percent in 1890. As of 2005, more than two-thirds of native speakers of English use American English.

Answer 3

Every country creates its own idiom, even certain regions of a country.

Firstly, American English is spelled differently and has slight differences in meaning.

Secondly, American English is spoken quite differently in the South of the country.

Answer 4

The dialects of English spoken in America. As Churchill once said, "The Americans and Brits are common people divided by a common language."

Answer 5

It is a less formal version of England English. When the English settled what we now call America their language evolved in a much different direction than what evolved in England--similar to South America Spanish and Spanish spoken in Spain.

Answer 6

American English is the English language as written and spoken by Americans. Examples:

America: I am having fish and fries for dinner.
England: I am having fish and chips for tea.
Japan: Fishes and fried potato are having for me at dinner.

America: What color are your pants?
England: What colour are your trousers?
Japan: The clothes which it is wearing on the legs is in the color of what?

England's English is commonly called "The King's English," and Japan's English is commonly called "Engrish."

Answer 7

The kind of English dialect that is spoken in America.

This includes such constructions as 'How big of a building it is!' and 'have gotten' along with spellings like 'color' and expressions like 'freeway'. Normally used to differentiate it from British English.

Answer 8

The english spoken in the USA. Like the one spoken in the UK is called British english.

Answer 9

The English that Americans (USA citizens speak)

Answer 10

In "American" English, several vowels have been omitted. Words such as "colour" and "neighbour" in England and Canada, are "color" and "neighbor" in the US.