The first, the РІР‚Сљcolonial periodРІР‚Сњ (1607-1776), covers the period between the arrival of the first settlers in the North American continent and the end of the War of Independence the second, the РІР‚Сљnational periodРІР‚Сњ (1776-1898), stretches from the end of the War of Independence to the end of the nineteenth century the third, the РІР‚Сљinternational periodРІР‚Сњ runs from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. It is customary to distinguish three stages in the development of American English. In 1617 a small group of immigrants settled in Jamestown and in 1620 the ship РІР‚СљMayflowerРІР‚Сњ carried the Pilgrims from England The English language was introduced to the Americans through British colonization in the early 17th century and it spread to many parts of the world because of the strength of the British empire.

To mistake present-day British for the ancestor of all other forms of English is a logical and factual error. In some respects, present-day British is closer to the common ancestral form of the present-day varieties than is American or other varieties but in other respects the reverse is true, and American, for instance, preserves older uses that became obsolete in British use. But present-day British is not the origin of any other variety of the language rather it and all the other varieties are equally descendant from a form of English spoken in the British Isles in earlier times. Other linguists regard the language of the USA as a dialect of English.Р”В«ritish is the form of English now used in the country whence all other forms of English have ultimately derived. Some American linguists, H.L.Mencken for one, speak of two separate languages with a steady flood of linguistic influence first (up to about 1914) from Britain and America, and since then from America to the British English is so powerful that there will come a time when the American standard will be established in Britain. It is over half a century already that the nature of the two main variants of the English language, British and American has been discussed. It is natural that the English language is not used with uniformity in the British Isles and in Australia, in the USA and in New Zealand, in Canada and in India, etc. The role of the English language in these countries is often overrated, apart from other reasons, through not differentiating between the function of the language as a mother tongue and its function as a means of communication between the colonizers and the native population. After World War II as a result of the national liberation movement throughout Asia and Africa many former colonies have gained independence and in some of them English as the state language has been or is being replaced by the national language of the people inhabiting these countries (by Hindi in India, Urdu in Pakistan, Burmanese in Burma, etc.) though by tradition it retains there the position of an important means of communication. The population of these countries still spoke their mother tongue or had command of both languages. The English language was also at different times enforced as an official language on the peoples who fell under British rule or US domination in Asia, Africa and Central and South America.

It is the official language in Wales, Scotland, in Gibraltar and on the island of Malta. It is the national language of England proper, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and some provinces of Canada. For historical and economic reasons the English language has spread over vast territories. 16 BibliographyР”В®very language allows different kinds of variations: geographical or territorial, perhaps the most obvious, stylistic, the difference between the written and the spoken form of the standard national language and others. Differences in American and English Spelling. Differences in American English and British English VocabularyРІР‚В¦.

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