As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.

To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.

This resulted in revisions of the King James Bible in 1881-85 as the English Revised Version and in 1901 as the American Standard Version.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

Nobody had addressed her in broken English at any of those places, nobody had suggested that she wasn't American.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII, ;) is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court or court of appeals ( American English ) or appeal court ( British English ), is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.

In American English, asphalt ( or asphalt cement ) is the carefully refined residue from the distillation process of selected crude oils.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

Category: American people of English descent

* An abbot president is the head of a congregation ( federation ) of abbeys within the Order of St. Benedict ( for instance, the English Congregation, The American Cassinese Congregation, etc.

Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

The meaning of the word American in the English language varies according to the historical, geographical, and political context in which it is used.

The noun is rarely used in American English to refer to people not connected to the United States.

Some anthropologists started collecting recordings ( at first especially of Native American folklore ) on phonograph cylinders in the late 19th century.

He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 ( early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a ' talking-machine ' can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 ), and he demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29 ( it was patented on February 19, 1878 as US Patent 200, 521 ).

By the mid-1890s, most American cities had at least one phonograph parlor.

The phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888 at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest known surviving musical recordings, until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a waveform of " Au Clair de la Lune ", recorded on a phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from Philadelphia created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.

In 1888, American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison conceived of a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

In the beginning of the Golden Age, American radio network programs were almost exclusively broadcast live, as the national networks prohibited the airing of recorded programs until the late 1940s because of the inferior sound quality of phonograph discs, the only practical recording medium.

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison invented the telephone and phonograph in 1876 and 1877 respectively, and the American Library Association was founded in Philadelphia.

The Victor Talking Machine Company ( 1901 – 1929 ) was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.

He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone ( phonograph in American English ).

Some date it to the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s when the phonograph and radio supplanted sheet music as the driving force of American popular music, while others consider Tin Pan Alley to have continued into the 1950s when earlier styles of American popular music were upstaged by the rise of rock & roll.

The label of the discs featured artwork depicting a Native American with a smoking pipe listening to a front-mount disc phonograph of undeterminable manufacture.

The Victor Talking Machine Company, founded in 1901, became the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records.

Charles Sumner Tainter ( April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940 ) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.

Thanks to close Australian links with American theatrical entertainment circuits, and Tin Pan Alley marketing of American music to Australia via phonograph records, modern dance arrangements, piano rolls and visiting jazz acts, Australians developed a strong interest in jazz influenced dance music and its related forms.

* Grado Labs, an American headphone and phonograph cartridge manufacturer

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from Philadelphia created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.

The trade name Graphophone was used by the successor of the American Graphophone Company, Columbia Records, as the name for their version of the phonograph.

According to the American folklorist Alan Lomax, Lead Belly learned the song from someone's interpretation of the 1917 version compiled by Cecil Sharp, and by the 1925 phonograph recording.

Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.

* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), in the United States often referred to as simply the Civil War and sometimes called the " War Between the States ", was a civil war fought over the secession of the Confederate States.

The novelist Raymond Chandler criticised her in his essay, " The Simple Art of Murder ", and the American literary critic Edmund Wilson was dismissive of Christie and the detective fiction genre generally in his New Yorker essay, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

When used with a grammatical qualifier, the adjective American can mean " of or relating to the Americas ", as in Latin American or Indigenous American.

Less frequently, the adjective can take this meaning without a qualifier, as in " American Spanish dialects and pronunciation differ by country ", or the name of the Organization of American States.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

: In this article, inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies of British America that supported the American Revolution are primarily referred to as " Americans ," with occasional references to " Patriots ", " Whigs ," " Rebels " or " Revolutionaries ".

* " The Ark ", a song by American rock band Dr. Dog

Other American folksongs include: " She'll Be Coming ' Round the Mountain ", " Skewball ", and " Stagger Lee ".

They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.

* Guy Roos ( 2008 ) " Exceptional symmetric domains ", § 1: Cayley algebras, in Symmetries in Complex Analysis by Bruce Gilligan & Guy Roos, volume 468 of Contemporary Mathematics, American Mathematical Society.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

Many American bubble tea vendors sell " milk smoothies ", which are similar to bubble tea but do not contain any tea ingredients.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

During World War II, Japanese soldiers would yell in English, " To hell with Babe Ruth ", in order to anger American soldiers.

They were simply " Boston ", " Bostonians " or " the Bostons "; or the " Americans " or " Boston Americans " as in " American Leaguers ", Boston being a two-team city.