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DIVERSITY IN UNITY American & British English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Robert Ilson
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Abstract

What separates the two major varieties of the language, apart from a great deal of water? An American domiciled in Britain looks at both the obvious and the not-quite-so-obvious in what unites and divides them.

Type
Special Features
Information
English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 7 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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