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es 4 American English has very considerably influenced British, English— especially in the last quarter of a century; and this has been due, to a far wider set of circumstances than the mere fact of America’s leading, position in commerce, the films and finance—though these have produced, a body of slang in England some of which has already penetrated to good, colloquial usage. The words ‘caucused’, for instance, came to English as, a political term from America; ‘can’ has now developed a slightly different meaning; the use of ‘cut’ as a word for ‘reduction’ was originally, American, but became fixed in good English largely through the financial, slump of 1931 in Britain and its consequences. ‘Sense’ as a verb, which, has been in use in the British written language for nearly a century,, was an importation from America, and even to-day is frowned upon as, a poor substitute for ‘perceive’ or ‘feel’ by some old-fashioned scholars., American English may be considered as a mighty offshoot of British, English. Indeed the English language has developed, what might perhaps, be called, dialects divergences in American, Australia, S. Africa, India, etc. They are all filially related to the parent English language. But, among these, American English provides an example of convergence. It, is threatening to overwhelm the British English. In course of time there, isa possibility of a kind of modern English which is under the increasing, influence of American English. Science, ya manna 90TR1, , i