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American English
set of dialects of the English language spoken in the United States
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Wikidata (Q7976) ↗
Details
Instance of
ethnolect
,
natural language
,
dialect
Subclass of
North American English
Has parts
African American Vernacular English
,
Mid-Atlantic accent
,
African American English
,
Cajun English
,
General American English
,
Chicano English
,
Miami English
,
New York Latino English
,
Northern American English
,
New York dialect
,
Midland American English
,
High Tider
Country
United States
country of origin
United States
described by source
New International Encyclopedia
dialect of
English
different from
North American English
indigenous to
United States
native label
American English
number of speakers, writers, or signers
300000000
partially coincident with
General American English
related category
Category:U.S. English pronunciation
short name
американский английский
topic's main category
Category:American English
Wikimedia language code
en-us
writing system
Latin script
Works in this collection
(60)
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
A Song of Ice and Fire
1996
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1900
East of Eden
1952
The Sound and the Fury
1929
Silent Spring
1962
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1968
A Streetcar Named Desire
1947
The Road
2006
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford American Dictionary
California Proposition 227
Linguistic Atlas Project
The New International Encyclopædia/Americanisms
American English
The social stratification of English in New York City
Authority files
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GND ↗
BnF ↗
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1955
Percy Jackson & the Olympians
2005
Divergent
2011
Maus
1980
Pollyanna
1913
The Bell Jar
1963
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1962
The Dark Tower
1982
The Big Sleep
1939
The Left Hand of Darkness
1969
Ubik
1969
As I Lay Dying
1930
The Inheritance Cycle
2002
Light in August
1932
Breakfast of Champions
1973
Absalom, Absalom!
1936
The King in Yellow
1895
The Hunt for Red October
1984
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1936
The Heroes of Olympus
2010
Today
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Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
2011
Franny and Zooey
1961
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
1957
Where the Crawdads Sing
2018
Hillbilly Elegy
2017
Nine Stories
1953
The Goldfinch
2013
The Giving Tree
1964
Robot series
1949
Naked Lunch
1959
Ham on Rye
1982
A Scanner Darkly
1977
Winesburg, Ohio
1919
The World According to Garp
1978
The Mortal Instruments
2007
The Holocaust Industry
2000
Nightfall
1941
All the Light We Cannot See
2014
It Can't Happen Here
1935
Industrial Society and Its Future
1995
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
1974
Post Office
1971
The Price of Salt
1952
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates
1865
The Mist
1980
The Kane Chronicles
2010
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1940
House of Night
2007
The Trials of Apollo
2015