Great Britain
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American English
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In the early part of the seventeenth century English settlers began to bring their language to
America, and another series of changes began to take place. The settlers borrowed words from
Indian languages for such strange trees as the hickory and persimmon, such unfamiliar
animals as raccoons and woodchucks. Later they borrowed other words from settlers from
other countries for instance, chowder and prairie from the French, scow and sleigh from the
Dutch. They made new combinations of English words, such as backwoods and bullfrog, or
gave old English words entirely new meanings, such as lumber ( which in British English
means approximately junk ) and corn ( which in British means any grain, especially wheat ).
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