We take a deep dive into American English. It's influences from native American, immigrants from across the world, slaves, religion and more. We'll discuss how Americans have changed the way we speak English around the world. We'll discuss vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar differences and look at some American idioms with an interesting history,

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00:00 HARRY POTTER
03:18 A Word about terminology
04:58 New continent, new vocabulary
09:41 Religion in the new world
12:48 Obsolete in Britain, still used in US
15:17 British and American False Friends
16:27 Brits who hated American English
17:37 Grammar differences
18:50 Pronunciation differences
23:06 Spelling differences and Noah Webster
25:32 5 American idioms
28:54 Conclusions
29:43 Other videos on this topic

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