2007年4月24日(火)

Essay for the homework of English class, its deadline is next morning

"Question: Why does American English show archaic features as well as the features foreign to British English ?"

We can say simply to the question, 'Because American English is not "standard"'. The fact that American English (AmE) has archaic features of Britain English (BrE) shows two Englishs were divided when both language had same features. Later one English changed its feature like [i:] to [ai], the other did not. There is some example that AmE maintains archaic states, like English that is educated in Japanese school maintains archaic AmE. A season comes after Summer is called 'Autumn' in BrE, 'Fall' in AmE. A past participle form of get is 'got' in BrE and 'gotten' in AmE. Both examples are archaic for BrE. BrE stops their usage, AmE does not. It's why AmE sometimes has something archaic in BrE.

提出したら赤だらけになることを期待して書きつぱなしにする。

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