The Americanization of English

Abstract

WHEN WE ARE TALKING TO AMERICANS it is the differences in usage, pronunciation and vocabulary, rather than the similarities, which first strike us. But today nobody imagines that these differences could eventually result in two demonstrably dissimilar languages, as distinct (say) as Dutch and Afrikaans.

Citation

Edgar, J. (1973), "The Americanization of English", Library Review, Vol. 24 No. 1, pp. 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012588