The source of inf. About Germanic Tribes.

AE grammar.

Written forms of AE are fairly well standardized across the US and in the overwhelming majority of their grammatical forms they are in general agreement w/standard written BE. Regional dialects in the US typically reflect the elements of the lang. of the main immigrant groups in any particular region of the country, especially in terms of pronunciation and vernacular vocabulary.

collective nouns are usually sing. in construction: the committee was unable to agree... AmE however may use plural pronouns in agreement with collective nouns: the team takes their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

The past tense and past participle of the verbs learn, spoil, spell (only in the word-related sense), burn, dream, smell, spill, leap, and others, can be either irregular (learnt, spoilt, etc.) or regular (learned, spoiled, etc.). In AmE, - regular forms (except for burnt and leapt).

present perfect (to express a fact) or the simple past (to imply an expectation).

Will rather than shall. Am. grammar also tends to ignore some traditional distinctions between should and would.

Transitivity: meet with

Prepositions and adverbs: Monday thru Friday

Nouns as verbs: torch, gun

AE spelling and pronunciation

Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast (for example, in Eastern New England and New York City), partly because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestigious varieties of English English at a time when those varieties were undergoing changes. Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.

the er sound of fur or butter, is realized in AmE as a monophthongal r-colored vowel (stressed [ɝ ] or unstressed [ɚ ] as represented in the IPA).

/ɑ / (the so-called " broad A") -> /æ /: dance, bath

The merger of /ɑ / and /ɒ /, making father and bother rhyme.

The merger of /ɒ / and /ɔ /. This is the so-called cot-caught merger.

was, of, from, what

Dropping of /j/ after alveolar consonants: new, duke, Tuesday, suit, resume, lute

Numbers: 2 thousand 3 (without and)

bus numbers – 2 seventy 2

a quarter after/till

The source of inf. About Germanic Tribes.

It is based on testimonies of Greek and Roman writers. Pythias - 4^th century BC. He sailed from his native town through the straits of Gibraltar, then along the West cost of Gaul? Along the channel, he even maybe reached the Baltic. Only a few fragments from Pythias’ work have been preserved by the Greek geographer Strabol and part of it by the Roman writer Pliney the Elder. Next comes the roman general, statesmen and writer J. Ceaser. In his book “ Commentaries of the war in Gaul ” Ceaser gives a several chapters to the Germans: lived in tribes, from his notes it follows that the Teutons were Normans. Besides about the Germanic tribes there are some more testimonies by “ Historia Cornelious Tacitus ”.