American English

American English Dialects

American English

• American English (AmE) is the form of English used in the United States. It includes all English dialects used within the United States of America.
• General American (GA) is considered to be “standard” or “accentless”

New England Dialect

Dialects in American English

Northern dialect

Southern dialect

General American dialect

General American Dialect

• General American  (abbreviated as  GA  or  GenAm ) is an  umbrella   variety  of  American English —a continuum of accents—commonly attributed to a majority of Americans and popularly perceived, among Americans, as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics. Due to General American accents being widespread throughout the United States, they are sometimes, though controversially,classified as  Standard American English . The precise definition and usefulness of "General American" continues to be debated,and the scholars who use it today admittedly do so as a convenient basis for comparison rather than for exactness.