AMERICAN IS A LANGUAGE
“Americanisms,” considered slang in British countries, will be better understood' as a result of the researches of Sir William Craigie, coeditor of the Oxford English dictionary. who is shortly to publish an American English dictionary. Interviewed at his home at Ridgehurst, near Watlington, Oxfordshire, Sir William told a reporter: “I have spent, the best part of the last 10 years in Chicago in connection with this dictionary, returning to England only for three months each year. “Although the American language takes in words .from the Indian. French, Spanish and others, it has,' in the main, developed from inside. “The word used by an American quite often has a different meaning to that of the Englishman. In some cases the Americans retain the original meaning of a word which has fallen into disuse in England.”
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1936, Page 2
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138AMERICAN IS A LANGUAGE Northern Advocate, 13 June 1936, Page 2
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