Contents inroduction chapter I. American english as a variant of english

CONCLUSION 
English is now an internationally recognized language of communication. 
It is used on all national airlines, spoken and written by hundreds of millions of 
people of different nationalities (for example, in India alone up to three 
thousand newspapers are published in English). It is the language of modern 
business, science, office work, information technology and, of course, 
communication. 
Now more than a billion people on earth speak and aspire to speak 
English, English is the most studied language in the world, whose influence is 
so enormous that it can influence not only the vocabulary, but also the linguistic 
structure of other languages. One of the possible reasons for the spread of 
English is the richness of the vocabulary (about 600,000 words according to the 
Oxford dictionary, not counting technical words) and the high percentage of 
international notions (up to 200,000 words). We should add to this the wealth of 
synonymic series, which allows native English speakers to distinguish shades of 
meaning. 
The American version of English is a more successful opponent of British 
English, and there are several reasons for that. One is that American English 
was particularly linguistically pure and correct, since the settlers, people from 
different corners of Britain, finding themselves together in new and risky 
circumstances, had to discard dialectal differences and retain in their speech 
only what was common to them all. Interestingly, as a modernized version of 
English, the language of Americans at the same time retains the obvious 
features of the English "Elizabethan" language of the 17th and even 16th 
centuries, which for modern Britons are quite archaic, having disappeared back 
in the 18th century. 
"In a whole range of fields of human life and activity--in material culture, 
economics and finance, education and health, and many other fields--the 
American version is becoming increasingly common throughout the world and 

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tends to supplant the Briticisms...." At present the USA has the greatest number 
of the native speakers of English (in 1995 the population of the USA was 
263057 thousand people). It was America in the twentieth century that 
contributed the most to the spread of the English language. 
In this study, an analysis of the studied literature was made, which allows 
us to trace the development of the American variant of the English language. 
Thus, this paper proves the following: 
1. The American variant of English is characterized by simplified spelling. 
Noah Webster introduced many colloquialisms into the dictionary, explaining 
that if all the people use the word, then it has a right to enter the language. But 
at the same ti me, all these processes are carried out on the material of the 
English language specifically. 
2. Noah Webster and Mencken often expressed controversial, erroneous, and 
sometimes fundamentally flawed views. Many of their theoretical arguments 
seem naive and overly straightforward. But overall, their writings have played a 
positive role and have had a great influence on the work of many American 
linguists, focusing their attention on the peculiarities of the English language in 
the United States and the need to develop its literary norms. 

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