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The Story of American English
 

History of Colonization
 

  • The first permanent English settlement in North America dates from 1607

 

  • The hundred or so colonists called their settlement Jamestown (after James I) and the area Virginia (after Elizabeth, the “Virgin Queen”)

 

  • Further settlements followed along the coast, and also on nearby islands, such as Bermuda

 

  • In 1620, the first group of Puritans arrived on the Mayflower

 
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882)

  • Prevented by storms from reaching Virginia, they landed at Cape Cod Bay, and established a settlement at Plimoth (now Plymouth, Massachusetts)

 

  • By 1640, about 15,000 immigrants had come to the Massachusetts area
 

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THE STORY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH

  History of Colonization

  Southern and Northern Settlements

  “Colonial Lag” Theory

  Unique Character of American Dialects

  Origins of Linguistic Diversity

  The Concept of the “Melting Pot”

MODERN ENGLISH

  The "Ink-horn" Controversy 

  Humour & Pathos in Shakespeare

  Biblical Phrases Test

  British vs. American English

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