ABSTRACT
American English arose " when the colonists and settlers began to adopt new terms and develop new senses of words, and . . . it became more definite when the vernaculars of the various groups began to coalesce into one recognized form of language somewhat distinct from the English of the mother-country". Naturally, the beginnings of American long antedate " the earliest written comments on the modifications that had taken place in the language as Mr. Mathews 1 has said after due research.
