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.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

* Austin Idol, the ring name of American professional wrestler Dennis McCord ( born 1949 )

Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name.

Architects in the US who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, are elected Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and can write FAIA after their name.

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.

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* American Standards Association, former name of the American National Standards Institute

* American Sunbathing Association, former name of the American Association for Nude Recreation

* ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network ( formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company )

* American Baptist Convention, name of American Baptist Churches USA ( ABCUSA ) from 1950 to 1972, a USA-based Christian denomination

* American Collectibles Network, former name of the American television network now known as Jewelry Television

* Alexandra Lee ( stage name Alexandra Starlight ), American singer and songwriter

While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.

`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.

Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.

Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.

The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.

The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;