American Quote by Susie Dent

In all my years in 'Countdown's' Dictionary Corner, the subject most guaranteed to rankle with our viewers is the presence of Americanisms in the…

— Susie Dent

We've never adopted Americanisms. We are a very British band from a very British cultural scene. We fly that flag and that is something…

— Keith Flint

“Having said that the unliterary reader attends to the words too little to make anything like a full use of them, I must notice…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

— Roy Blount, Jr

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

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