American English is essentially English after having been…

There is still this perception in football about whether people are 'English through and through.' Essentially there is not any such thing without going…

— Eniola Aluko

I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

— Barbara Pym

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain…

— Camille Paglia

“I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree. I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English.…

— Sienna McQuillen

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since…

— Robert Burchfield

“There are over 10,000 idioms in American English, and some of them have been in use for more than 2,000 years, while others are brand new.”

— Gail Brenner

“Joe looked out of the window again. He had the feeling that outside the window there should have been hover-cars, men in trilby hats…

— Lavie Tidhar

What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was a cleric,…

— Peter Bergen

When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different…

— Keyshawn Johnson

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the…

— William Labov

“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.”

— H. L. Mencken

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British…

— Sibel Kekilli

That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

— Roy Blount, Jr

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our…

— Theodore Roosevelt