American English is the greatest influence of English…

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

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

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

“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

“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

American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

“She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai,…

— Christina Baker Kline