An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

A German diplomat, Truetzschler von Falkenstein, complained after the war that " Ribbentrop, having had contact with only a small group in England – representatives of the so-called two hundred families – did not know the great mass of the English people.

The English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton improved this analysis by defining force and mass and relating these to acceleration.

Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media.

Newfoundland English dialects are steadily losing their distinctiveness through the action of the mass media and an education system that has traditionally regarded the dialect as a backward corruption of " proper " English.

In a 1945 Wireless World article the English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 1917 – 2008 ) described in detail the possible use of communications satellites for mass communications.

Of the several newspapers in mass circulation, three are English.

He marks the commencement of that vast change in the movement of English politics by which it has come about that the sentiment of the great mass of the people now tells effectively on the action of the government from day to day – almost from hour to hour.

He was obliged to use the recently released Book of Common Prayer, which was mainly a translation of the Latin mass into English and was largely left intact and unreformed.

Some mass nouns can be used in English in the plural to mean " more than one instance ( or example ) of a certain sort of entity "— for example, " Many cleaning agents today are technically not soaps, but detergents.

In English ( and in many other languages ), there is a tendency for nouns referring to liquids ( water, juice ), powders ( sugar, sand ), or substances ( metal, wood ) to be used in mass syntax, and for nouns referring to objects or people to be count nouns.

Many English nouns can be used in either mass or count syntax, and in these case, they take on cumulative reference when used as mass nouns.

The collective form is therefore similar in many respects to an English mass noun like " rice ", which in fact refers to a collection of items which are logically countable.

In 1964, a heavily abridged version was published as a mass market paperback, which was then translated into English for publication the following year as Madness and Civilization.

For instance, in English, is a mass noun and thus one cannot say *" three muds ", but one can say " three < u > drops </ u > of mud ", " three < u > pails </ u > of mud ", etc.

Bruce then committed his whole Scots army to an inexorable bloody push into the disorganised English mass, fighting side by side across a single front.

While the official languages are Catalan and Spanish, other major languages like English, Italian, German, French and Dutch can also be heard extensively in the summer due to mass tourism.

In English, some nouns are used most frequently as mass nouns, with or without a classifier ( as in " Waiter, I'll have some coffee " or " Waiter, I'll have a cup of coffee "), but also less frequently as count nouns ( as in " Waiter, we'll have three coffees.

Some Anglo-Catholic parishes use Anglican versions of the Tridentine Missal, such as the English Missal, The Anglican Missal, or American Missal, for the celebration of mass, all of which are intended primarily for the celebration of the Eucharist.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

Modern English, which almost entirely lacks declension in its nouns, does not have an explicitly marked accusative case even in the pronouns.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

* In other cases, Canadians and Americans differ from British spelling, such as in the case of nouns like curb and tire, which in British English are spelled kerb and tyre.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "- s " that were once considered plural ( for example: " Physics is my favorite academic subject ").

In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

In American English, collective nouns almost invariably take singular verb forms ( formal agreement ).

The tradition of using " terms of venery " or " nouns of assembly ", collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems, from an English hunting tradition of the Late Middle Ages.

In Modern English, nouns have distinct singular and plural forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number.

Many nouns can actually function as members of two genders or even all three, and the gender classes of English nouns are usually determined by their agreement with pronouns, rather than marking on the nouns themselves.

The-io ( n ) ending is used in English to create nouns from Latin adjectives and it can indicate a state or action wherein the Latin verb is being, or has been, performed.

Modern English typically does not morphologically mark nouns for a genitive case in order to indicate a genitive construction ; instead, it uses either the

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

Though English pronouns can have subject and object forms ( he / him, she / her ), nouns show only a singular / plural and a possessive / non-possessive distinction ( e. g., chair, chairs, chair's, chairs &# 39 ;).

For example, in English, the plural marker -( e ) s of regular nouns can be pronounced,, or, depending on the final sound of the noun's singular form.

For example, English speakers recognize that the words dog and dogs are closely related — differentiated only by the plurality morpheme "- s ", which is only found bound to nouns, and is never separate.

In English some nouns are used for things that cannot be counted, and some for things that can.

Gender in nouns was grammatical, as opposed to the natural gender that prevails in modern English.

He argued that in contrast to English and other SAE languages, the Hopi language does not treat the flow of time as a sequence of distinct, countable instances, like " three days " or " five years " but rather as a single process and consequentially it does not have nouns referring to units of time.

Outside of Europe, subject – verb – object languages have a strong tendency to place adjectives, demonstratives, and numerals after the noun they modify, though Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malay place numerals before nouns as English does.