American english Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

— Maurice Druon

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.

— Robert Burchfield

Perhaps it's an accident of nationality, but the English treasure subtlety and appreciate not having everything spelled out for them, while Americans want everything…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with…

— Anonymous

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,'…

— Salma Hayek

In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.

— Jesse Sheidlower

I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the…

— Susie Dent

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

— Oscar Wilde

Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our…

— Bill Vaughan

English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.

— Shehnaaz Gill

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

— Rudyard Kipling

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they…

— Mark Twain