Ethnicity And American English

America has always been a land of immigrants, and American English has been shaped since its earliest days by contact am... (more)

America has always been a land of immigrants, and American English has been shaped since its earliest days by contact among immigrants from all over the British Isles and from around the world. Consider how the languages of the many immigrants who poured into America in the 19th and early 20th centuries gave rise to distinctive ethnic dialects of American English, and how they left their mark on American English more generally. (less)