The American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
After the next few days, the name Sandy will survive in the lexicon of the American language as one of the worst storms on record that battered the Eastern United States.
Baby boomers facing the possibility of neurological disorders, strokes and accident trauma contribute to the positive job trend, says Lemmietta McNeilly, chief staff officer of speech-language pathology at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
According to Dictionary.com, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, included the term with essentially the same definition in 2000.
Second, the White House needs to speak in plain language to the American people about what needs to be done, so it harnesses their legitimate anger and anxiety and continues to inspire their confidence and hope.
Realizing that the Navajo tongue had no link to any Asian or European language, the American military recruited 420 Indians to convey messages in the Pacific.
All the young people in the village speak the language, a rarity among American Indian tribes.
They've always been part of the great American stew of language, food, music and hard work.
In valleys and villages half a world away, they remember him -- the American who spoke their language, who respected their culture and who helped them defend their country.
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Hollywood's position is underpinned by the enormous size of its home market, by the world's gargantuan appetite for screened entertainment, and by its extraordinary ability to exploit the appeal of American culture and the spread of the English language.
During World War I, German Americans were loathed and reviled, sauerkraut was redubbed "liberty cabbage, " and several states banned the teaching of German, convinced that the language itself promoted un-American values.
She speaks English in slogans, having learnt the language from watching American television.
John McCain told me that there have always been those who stoke fears that American culture and the English language are on their way out.
There is one more obvious and critical link between language and the American political economy, which, if recognized, might free the market and liberate us from undue state intervention.
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With potentially more lightly regulated non-EU markets like China and India crying out for American-style English-language TV, the UK's Anglo-American press barons see only problems in a more integrated Europe.
For this, the only (circumstantial) evidence is that the Ukrainian-language service of Radio Liberty, which the American government finances, has been very hostile to Mr Kuchma of late, giving lots of airtime to Mr Melnichenko.
And we believe that his pay-fors will be -- to use inside-the-beltway congressional language -- will be supported by the American people.
Founded in 1975 by the American poet Ambar Past, the profit sharing collective prints Mayan language books and accompanying Spanish and English translations.
Out of it a new lexicon was born: the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1969.
Through Eternity tours caters to the American market, using only guides who are fluent in the English language ensuring nothing gets lost in translation.
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Although the U.S State Department subsequently implemented a special immigrant visa program for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, the creation of this class of refugees is a testament to the power of language politics, and an example of the fallout from American insufficiencies in this area.
Though the Internet boasts users from dozens of countries, the alphabet is dominant, as is the English language -- a legacy of the Net's North American origins.
Increasingly, American unions are returning to the language of redistributive justice.
While there is written evidence dating back to 1821 indicating such a language existed, beginning in the 1940s it started to get largely phased out in favor of American Sign Language.
When Matthew Engel wrote here earlier this month about the impact of American English on British English, he restarted a debate about the changing nature of language which ended in dozens of suggestions from readers of their own loathed Americanisms.
And the language has - and rhetoric in American discourse has often been very, very angry and has a lot of tension in it.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
One minute they are the swaggering gringos flaunting their American-sized wallets, the next flailing to make a date in a foreign language.
Currently, there is a national shortage of sign language interpreters in the United States, even though there are 40 schools offering bachelor degree programs in American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and 78 that offer associate degrees.
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