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English was used as the standard language in America but it should be improve and perfect.
Benjamin Franklin
He published a paper entitled A Scheme for New Alphabet and a Reform Mode of Spelling there is such spelling differences Ex: American British
Honor Theater Center honour theatre centre
Noah Webster
A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. American Speller. Dissertations on English Language. Dictionary American Dictionary of English language.
Webster Emphasis
Emphasis to each syllable in a word. A good articulation consists in giving every letter in a syllable its due portion of sound, according to the most approve custom of pronouncing it. Between the syllables of which words are composed, that the ear shall without difficulty acknowledge their number. The maxim: sec-ret-ary(Am.) secretry (Br)
CANADIAN ENGLISH
It was caused by the American Revolution. It was influenced by French, Indian and Iroquois.
Indian Iroquois caribou, muskrat, papoose, pemmican kanata (village)
CANADIAN ENGLISH
It is actually another regional variant of North American English. West Quebec, they dominated the making of modern Canada, and their speech has become the basis for what is called General Canadian.
Pron. The distinction is in the vowel sound, the diphthong ou. (ou oa ) ex: Am. Can. Out oat About aboat Caught cot Dawn don Awful offal
The Phrases that Appeared Caused by the Development of the Above Circumstances
Trading Activity
Gambling Frontiers
Trading Activity
Steamboat, paddlesteamer, letting off steam, riffraff, riffs, high falutin, hogwash, mici sibi, and cotton on to. 1. Mici sibi Mississippi 2. letting off steam a vital technique if the steam boilers that drove the huge paddles were not to explode. 3. Riffraff- the people who floated downstream on rafts steered by riffs (oars). 4. high falutin - the people who were rich enough to travel in style on the riverboats. 5. I cotton on to you I like you
Gambling
Put up or shut up, Ill call your bluff and passing the buck. Square deal, new deal, fair deal, raw deal, big deal. Poker face, the card werent stuck against you, hit the jackpot, loaded the dice, thrown in his hand, play a wild card, and the chips were down.
Frontier
Joywater, firewater, corn juice, whiskey, cocktail, bartender, bootlegging, bootleg album. Salon, bender, Discombobulate- to confuse, Hornswoggle - to swindle Squablification quarelling Lalapolooza an extraordinary person or thing.
Cow terms Cow camp, cowhand, cowboy, cowboy song, cowpuncher, cowpoke. Phrases:
1. Hot under the collar 2. Bite the dust
Mark Twain
On 16 December 1865, a year after Lincolns Second Inaugural. Mark Twain wrote a story in The New York Saturday Press,