Lexicology. Different dialects and accents of English

The British local dialects can be traced back to Old English dialects.Modern linguistics distinguishes territorial variants of a national language and local dialects.Its vocabulary is contrasted to dialect words or dialectisms belonging to various local dialects.The differences between the English language as spoken in Britain.The variety of English spoken in the USA has received the name of American English.Cases where the semantic structure of a partially equivalent word is different.Cases where otherwise equivalent words are different in distribution.Only the frequency observed in both cases may be different.Particularly common in American English are verbs with the hanging postpositive.The English language in the USA is characterized by relative uniformity throughout the country.