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1、ChapterXIAMERICANENGLISHTheGrowthofAmericanEnglishCharacteristicsofAmericanEnglishDifferencesbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish2WehavereallyeverythingincommonwithAmericanowadays,exceptofcourse,language.---OscarWilde,19thcenturywriterWithacentury
2、BritishandAmericanEnglishspeakerswillnotbeabletounderstandeachother.---HenrySweet,19thcenturylinguistAnOverviewofAmericanEnglish3AmericaandEnglandaretwocountriesdividedbyacommonlanguage.--GeorgeBernardShaw,20thcenturywriterItdoesn’tmakemuchofadiffere
3、ncewhetherateacherspeaksBritishorAmericanEnglish.--DaveSperling,founderofDave’sESLCafe4Someexpertsestimatethatabout4,000wordsincommonuseinBritishEnglishhaveadifferentmeaningorareuseddifferentlyinAmericanEnglish.Somereasonsforthisareasfollows:Earlyset
4、tlershadnoverbalcontactwiththeircountryoforigin.Settlerswerefrommanydifferentcountries,forexample,Spain,Holland,andGermany.Withtheindustrialrevolution,manynewtermswereneeded.Asthetermswerenotmuchinprinttobeginwith,theengineersanddesignersinthetwocoun
5、triescoinedtheirowntermswithoutreferencetoeachother5GrowthofAmericanEnglishEnglishasaninternationallanguagehasanumberofvarieties.BritishEnglishAmericanEnglishAustralianEnglishCanadianEnglish…TwomajorvarietiesofEnglishBritishEnglish(BrE)andAmericanEng
6、lish(AmE)Thesetwovarietiesdifferincertaindetails,butthereisnoessentialdifferencebetweenthembecauseofthesimilaritiesofthebasicwordstock,thebasicgrammarandthebasicphoneticsystem.Englishisunmistakableonelanguage,withtwomajornationaldialects.6ColonialAme
7、ricaTheestablishmentin1607ofthesettlementwhichtheexplorerscalledJamestownmarkedthebeginningofBritishcolonizationinAmerica.By1732theoriginalthirteenEnglishcolonieshadbeensetup.ThelanguagetheearlyimmigrantsbroughtwiththemwasElizabethanEnglish,thelangua
8、gespokenbyShakespeare,MiltonandBunyan,whichbelongedtotheearlystageofModernEnglish.7AfterindependenceFollowingAmericanindependence,famouspersonslikeThomasJefferson,JohnAdams,BenjaminFranklin,andNoahWebsterbegintoconsiderthatthecountryshouldhavealangua
