Gustavo Rubino Ernesto – American Words that Became British

PDF #61 –  Gustavo Rubino Ernesto – American Words that Became British, 31.05.2019, Friedrich Alexander University

“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
― H. Beam Piper, Fuzzy Sapiens

This paper will present the American English that occurred in the eight editions A, B and C entries (the sixth edition could not be found) of the well-known Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionaries. More than 4300 entries were extracted from about 100,000 entries that were analyzed. The first edition (1948) set the tone of the research with forty-six entries taken from it, which six served as an example of the analyses conducted in all eight editions. All editions were compared using the copies obtained at the FAU library located in Bismarckstrasse 1, Erlangen during the period of March, April and May of 2019.