Questions and assignments

1. Where in the world is the English language national and state?

2. In what countries does the English language retain the position of an important means of communication?

3. Is English spoken with uniformity in the world?

4. What varieties of English have literary standards of the language?

5. In what different ways might the language spoken in the USA be viewed linguistically?

6. What words are called Americanisms? What groups of Americanisms are distinguished? Illustrate your answer with examples.

7. Give examples of borrowings in American English.

8. What American English shortenings do you know?

9. What are the structural variants of the words in British and American English?

10. Name some of phonetic variants of words in both varieties of English.

11. Give examples of differences in the position of stress in American and British English.

12. Is there any difference in the word formation system in the two varieties?

13. Give examples of the differences in spelling.

14. Give examples proving the levelling of the lexical distinctions between the two varieties. What are they due to?

15. What is the result of adoption of Briticisms into American English?

16. What are the grammatical peculiarities of the American variety of English?

17. Give examples of the differences in preposition use in the two varieties of English.

18. What other regional varieties of English do you know?