American English

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20 Responses to "American English"

Chandrashekar says:

December 14, 2009 at 9:22 am

first it didn't strike. then it hit me! :Dmost intelligent absurdity I've ever seen!
Jamempress says:

February 10, 2010 at 5:55 pm

top of the list
Jamempress says:

February 10, 2010 at 11:55 pm

top of the list
Shankran S says:

May 30, 2012 at 6:46 am

please tell me how its an oxymoron
Rob Muirhead says:

July 18, 2012 at 9:05 pm

Two different nationalities;

Also, English isn’t American
NobbySingh says:

September 13, 2012 at 2:21 pm

Ahhh… you must be American 🙂
ASDFGH says:

October 16, 2012 at 12:28 pm

Has anyone ever heard of the word “dialect”?
Mr. De k. says:

December 8, 2012 at 11:00 pm

2 different nationalities? Those are two different things, but not opposite. I’m not an expert on this, but this is not an oxymoron is it?
Howecom says:

January 3, 2013 at 5:44 am

People from Germany speak German; If you’r from Spain your language is Spanish and of course if you’re from England your language is English. Other nationalities uses these languages for different reasons, the main one being a former colony of the origin of the country. Americans want their own language, sadly there is no language called “Americanish” and ‘American English” is an oxymoron . . .
Jonny Canuk says:

January 27, 2013 at 8:08 pm

American English spells and pronounces things differently
hassan says:

August 1, 2013 at 3:39 pm

it’s the same when u say english american
Guest says:

August 7, 2013 at 5:28 am

I don’t understand this being an oxymoron. The three types of English I know most are American, Australian, and British English. There are different spellings, pronunciations, and words in these English varieties.
chandler says:

August 7, 2013 at 5:29 am

I don’t understand this being an oxymoron. The three types of English I know most are American, Australian, and English (from England). There are different spellings, pronunciations, and words in these English varieties.
nbfdgs says:

October 24, 2013 at 9:58 pm

Yea, English and American aren’t opposites. Its probably a British example making fun of America.
RomanGodfrey says:

November 18, 2013 at 1:37 am

English comes from England, and American is from America. They’re “too different places”. Even though English is actually just a language….
Farkov says:

April 12, 2014 at 5:54 am

There is no “Australian” English. We speak English mongo.
Gillian Carr says:

June 19, 2017 at 3:00 am

Except they’re different because in England you would say “favourite, colour, grey, labour” but in America you would say “favorite, color, gray, labor” so, therefore, American English isn’t an oxymoron, rather a classification
Peter Chan says:

February 7, 2020 at 3:52 pm

Exactly.
And the name of the dialect is (US) Americanglish.
Peter Chan says:

February 7, 2020 at 3:59 pm

If you’re not an Aussie I challenge you to the Australian term ‘ute’ . . . without consulting anything.

US American and Australian English are variants (or dialects) of the English language. They are almost – but not completely – inter-compatible with true English or even with each other.
Ken Turnbull says:

November 10, 2020 at 4:37 pm

United States English is an oxymoron.

There is a language used in the US…it’s called ‘Murican’. The inhabitants of the country are ‘Muricans’ hence each individual is a ‘Murican’
Consider that they are now embarking on a practice that will change the expressions… good, better, best… to Good, More Good, Most Good. However it is more probable that the last will not be Most Good rather; Even More Good.
They even use the Bushism, Strategery, without understanding that the word is a joke by Will Farell.
If you want to see someone who continually mashes what little left of English there is in the US, watch Joy Reid on MSNBC.

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