Characteristics of American English

The characteristics of American English are as follows:

American English (American English or U.S. English (USA English), referred to as AmE, AE), also known as American English, American, it It is a form of English used in the United States, where it is the most dominant language.

1. Diversity

American language reflects the characteristics of American society, diversity reflects diverse cultural characteristics, and slang is a vivid reflection of American English. As a country of immigrants, the United States has always been known as the "nation of nations", but its mainstream culture is still Anglo-Saxon culture. Any new immigrant has to accept or adapt to this mainstream culture in order to live in the New World. At the same time, the American people's struggle for the independence and formation of their own literature and language is actually the continuation and development of political struggle.

The formation of American English is a long and tortuous process. The period before and after World War I was a turning point in the relationship between American English and British English - before that, the tendency was American English After the departure from British English, the main tendency is for British English to move closer to American English.

2. Rich creativity

Create some new words that do not exist at all. On the basis of old words, use affixes freely, or use blending and backformation to create new words.