Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

This is a feature of African American Vernacular English but is also used by a variety of English speakers in informal contexts.

Scott Atkins with critical introduction, historical contexts, and new footnotes from American Studies at the University of Virginia.

" Though often used interchangeably in American English, Hispanic and Latino are not identical terms, and in certain contexts the choice between them can be significant.

It was only with the emergence of nationalist sentiment from the late 18th century that the desire was felt to display national flags also in civilian contexts, notably the US flag, in origin adopted as a naval ensign in 1777, which after the American Revolution began to be displayed as a generic symbol of the United States, and the French Tricolore which became a symbol of the Republic in the 1790s.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, personality traits are " enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.

Formalized in 2010, the History and Culture Ph. D. at Drew University is one of a few graduate programs in the US currently specializing in intellectual history, both in its American and European contexts.

* American contexts:

Like " hobo " and " bum ," the word " tramp " is considered vulgar in American English usage, having been subsumed in more polite contexts by words such as " homeless person " or " vagrant.

In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of total ; a comparable American English locution would be " total with a capital T " ( an instance of the " with a capital letter " snowclone ).

In American English, judgment prevails in all contexts.

In 1916 an American ethnologist, Franz Boas, suggested that totemism exhibited no single psychological or historical origin ; since totemistic features can be connected with individuals and all possible social organizations, and they appear in different cultural contexts, it would be impossible to fit totemistic phenomena into a single category.

High income, English-language use, and embeddedness in American social contexts increased Latin American immigrants ' geographic mobility into multi-ethnic neighborhoods.

Since the 1970s it has spread in the United States of America mainly in training contexts and it has been described as " an innovation in American management ".

One reason was the concern about the pervasiveness of American popular culture and the other was the education system-driven necessity of contexts for new educational paradigms.

Media ecology is a contested term within media studies for it has different meanings in European and North American contexts.

Surrealism helped Carpentier to see contexts and aspects, especially those of American life, which he did not see before and after working among the leading artistic figures for some time, Carpentier did not feel overly enthusiastic about his work within surrealism and had felt that his “ surrealist attempts ha been in vain ” describing his frustration, as he felt he had “ nothing to add to this movement in France ".

* Though the actions of the United States and its allies may lead to civilian deaths or other forms of collateral damage, may require the use of means such as torture that would be condemned in other contexts, and may involve temporary alliances with undemocratic regimes, these actions are justified by the greater moral necessity of defeating terrorism and thus promoting American values and ensuring long-term U. S. security.

There is still a debate over whether this signaled a fundamental change in American culture — many youth feel that flip-flops are more dressy and can be worn in a variety of social contexts, while older generations feel that wearing them at formal occasions signifies laziness and comfort over style.

concerning Aegean, Balkan, European and American contexts is available at the blog-based Spondylus forum here.

Also, Americans are to give extra credit to the self, because the self is regarded as a more powerful causal entity in American contexts.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

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.

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

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

The name " Chicago " is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, translated as " wild onion " or " wild garlic ," from the Miami-Illinois language.

Some other American colleges later adopted the word to describe individual fields at their own institutions, but " campus " did not yet describe the whole university property.

In American English the word corporation is widely used to describe incorporated entities, especially those that have a large number of shareholders, and in respect of which, ownership can be transferred without the need for the consent of other shareholders.

In American English, the word company can include entities such as partnerships that, in British English would not be referred to as companies as they are not a separate legal entity.

Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".

Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

In British English it is not necessary to indicate an abbreviation with a full stop ( period ) after the abbreviation, when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the unabbreviated word, while the opposite holds true in North American English.

Note: In the following discussion, only one or two common pronunciations of American and British English varieties are used in this article for each word cited.

Teachers in American schools have been encouraged to use books about farts to make children more comfortable with the word.

Yet another Spanish / English false friend is " America / América ", where the word " America " in English, and singular, is usually used to talk about the United States of America, and the word " América " in Spanish is used to talk about the whole American continent.

Grits ( also sometimes called sofkee or sofkey from the Muskogee word ) are a food of Native American origin common in the Southern United States and mainly eaten at breakfast.

This is similar to what is described in American English as a vacation, a word rarely used in Australia or the UK.

Henry Rollins ( born 13 February 1961 ) is an American spoken word artist, writer, journalist, publisher, actor, radio DJ, activist and former singer-songwriter.

Homeland isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now ".

The origin of the word jazz has had wide spread interest – the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century — which has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented.

Mere days before Polk intended to make his request to Congress, he received word that Mexican forces had crossed the Rio Grande area and killed eleven American soldiers.