Category: American English

English as spoken and written in the USA by standard.

When it is murder

Habeas corpus is a legal predicate of no broader scope implied. You have your (the) body, it says, and it does not say anyone has you. It must be, you have yourself. ■More

Carpe linguam

The dot is mostly rounded or square, but were it triangular or hexagonal, the sense for it always would be to give some frame to what there is written or spoken. It is never there to divide or terminate written or spoken thought. ■More

USA Charters of Freedom

THE Constitution is a "syntax bonanza", that is, an exceptionally rich resource. We cannot have language forms that are hundreds of years aged, to learn modern grammar, but we can update the language form. Feel welcome to see the update. More→

American English ― where from?

THERE has been much talk about American English, in terms ancestral. Researchers have analyzed speech and "derived" sounds with particularity worthy of Pygmalion. More→