The Business Standard

How American English found its own voice without losing its roots

The founding of the United States helped reshape the English language, introducing new words and phrases that reflected the ...
The Business Standard

250 years on: How American English carved out its own identity from British roots

Language experts say American English developed naturally as settlers from across Britain and Europe mixed, reducing many ...
The Atlantic

The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States

Mr. Mencken has stowed probably 30,000 such odd data in the third of a million words and 700 text pages of his new fourth edition, which is the third so drastically rewritten and enlarged that no more ...
Yahoo

Americans and Brits Have Been Fighting Over the English Language for Centuries. Here’s How It Started

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's always been about more than just spelling The British and Americans have never gotten along very well where the English ...
The Atlantic

Toward an American Language

No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...