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- North_American_English abstract "North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the broadest variety of the English language as spoken in North America, including all dialects of the United States and Canada. Because of their shared histories and cultures and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary and accent of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken dialects are often grouped together under a single category. Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable in the two languages' written forms. Canadian spellings are primarily based on British usage as a result of Canada's longer-standing connections with the United Kingdom. Canadians are generally tolerant of both British and American spellings, with British spellings being favoured in more formal settings and in Canadian print media. Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster, who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English. Despite these differences, English as it is spoken in both Canada and the United States is similar, with the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution having had a large influence on the early spoken form of Canadian English.Some terms in North American English are used almost exclusively in Canada and the United States (for example, the terms diaper and gasoline are widely used instead of nappy and petrol). Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media. The list of divergent words becomes longer if considering regional Canadian dialects, especially as spoken in the Atlantic provinces and parts of Vancouver Island where significant pockets of British culture still remain.There are a considerable number of different accents within the regions of both the United States and Canada, originally deriving from the accents prevalent in different English, Scottish and Irish regions of the British Isles and corresponding to settlement patterns of these peoples in the colonies. These were developed and built upon as new waves of immigration, and migration across the North American continent, brought new accents and dialects to new areas, and as these ways of speaking merged and assimilated with the population. It is claimed that despite the centuries of linguistic changes there is still a resemblance between the English East Anglia accents which would have been used by early English settlers in New England (including the Pilgrims), and modern Northeastern United States accents. Similarly, the accents of Newfoundland have some similarities to the accents of Scotland and Ireland.".
- North_American_English thumbnail North_American_English_dialect_regions.jpg?width=300.
- North_American_English wikiPageExternalLink en-CA.org.
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- North_American_English wikiPageRevisionID "683851614".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink African-American_Vernacular_English.
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- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink British_Isles.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
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- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Maritime_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:English_language.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Category:North_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Chicano_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Comparison_of_American_and_British_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Dialect.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Diaper.
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- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Ireland.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink List_of_American_words_not_widely_used_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink List_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_British_and_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Lists_of_words_having_different_meanings_in_American_and_British_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Mid-Atlantic_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Midland_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Nappy.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink New_England_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Newfoundland_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Noah_Webster.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink North-Central_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink North_American_English_regional_phonology.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Northeastern_United_States.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Northern_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Petrol.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Pilgrim_(Plymouth_Colony).
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Pilgrim_Fathers.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Pittsburgh_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Pittsburghese.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Regional_accents_of_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Southern_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Texan_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink United_Empire_Loyalist.
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- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink United_Kingdom.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Upper_Midwest_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink Western_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLink File:North_American_English_dialect_regions.jpg.
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "American English".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "Canada and US".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "English".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "NAE".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "North America".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "North American English sound system".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "North American English".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "North American dialects".
- North_American_English wikiPageWikiLinkText "North American".
- North_American_English hasPhotoCollection North_American_English.
- North_American_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:English_dialects_by_continent.
- North_American_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Refimprove.
- North_American_English wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- North_American_English subject Category:English_language.
- North_American_English subject Category:North_American_English.
- North_American_English hypernym Variety.
- North_American_English type Article.
- North_American_English type Continent.
- North_American_English type Grape.
- North_American_English type Language.
- North_American_English type Article.
- North_American_English type Continent.
- North_American_English type Dialect.
- North_American_English type Language.
- North_American_English type Language.
- North_American_English type Thing.
- North_American_English type Q315.
- North_American_English type Q34770.
- North_American_English comment "North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the broadest variety of the English language as spoken in North America, including all dialects of the United States and Canada. Because of their shared histories and cultures and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary and accent of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken dialects are often grouped together under a single category.".
- North_American_English label "North American English".
- North_American_English sameAs Nordamerikansk_engelsk.
- North_American_English sameAs m.05fsb.
- North_American_English sameAs Q7053766.
- North_American_English sameAs Q7053766.
- North_American_English wasDerivedFrom North_American_English?oldid=683851614.
- North_American_English depiction North_American_English_dialect_regions.jpg.
- North_American_English isPrimaryTopicOf North_American_English.