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VOL. 3, ISSUE 2 (2017)
British English and American English : An overview
Authors
Baljeet Kour
Abstract
Today, we usually come across many a languages which are used widely by the people. Some of these languages are Hindi, English, Mandarin (Chinese) etc. There are various languages which are used by the people of different regions in a single country itself, apart from the National language. English language plays a vital role in our day today lives, only due to its universal feature, i.e people of two different nationalities know their own native languages very well but are not knowing about each others language (native) so English language becomes the medium of their communication.
English language is the most well documented language and there are of course various varieties of English such as Scottish, South African, Australian, British and American etc. All these types of English, American English and the British English are the most of these two types of English’s are famous because of the large number of people who used them for communication. Basically, American English is a modification of British English because of the fact that, the British taught American English when they were their slaves but as the time passed and American got independence form the British a change in the style of Americans language was observed. And today in 2017, we can say that, there is lot of difference between both the forms of English both grammatically and spoken.
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Pages:111-112
How to cite this article:
Baljeet Kour "British English and American English : An overview". International Journal of English Research, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 111-112
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