English dialect

particular area.
grammar and by their own literary norms.
Standard English – the official language of Great Britain taught at schools and universities, used
by the press, the radio and the television and spoken by educated people may be defined as that
form of English which is current and literary, substantially uniform and recognized as acceptable
wherever English is spoken or understood. Its vocabulary is contrasted to dialect words or
dialectisms belonging to various local dialects. Local dialects are varieties of the English
language peculiar to some districts and having no normalized literary form. Regional varieties
possessing a literary form are called variants. Dialects are said to undergo rapid changes under
the pressure of Standard English taught at schools and the speech habits cultivated by radio,
television and cinema.
The differences between the English language as spoken in Britain. The USA, Australia and
Canada are immediately noticeable in the field of phonetics. However these distinctions are
confined to the articulatory-acoustic characteristics of some phonemes, to some differences in the
use of others and to the differences in the rhythm and intonation of speech. The few phonemes
characteristic of American pronunciation and alien to British literary norms can as a rule be
observed in British dialects.
AMERICAN ENGLISH
The variety of English spoken in the USA has received the name of American English. The term
variant or variety appears most appropriate for several reasons. American English cannot be
called a dialect although it is a regional variety, because it has a literary normalized form called
Standard American, whereas by definition given above a dialect has no literary form. Neither is
it a separate language, as some American authors, like H. L. Mencken, claimed, because it has
neither grammar nor vocabulary of its own. From the lexical point of view one shall have to deal
only with a heterogeneous set of Americanisms.
An Americanism may be defined as a word or a set expression peculiar to the...

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