Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation... is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen.
...the British ruling class obviously could not admit to themselves that their usefulness was at an end. Had they done that they would have had to abdicate. For it was not possible for them to turn themselves into mere bandits, like theAmerican millionaires, consciously clinging to unjust privileges and beating down opposition by bribery and tear-gas bombs. After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments.
Graham Norton: But the people coming up to you now, like theAmericans, well, you know, theAmericans, they're notshy, theAmericans. Maggie Smith: No. Well, no but I don't go anywhere where really theycan get at me. It's usually in museums and art galleries and things, so that limits things. I keep away from there, andHarrod's I don't go near.
Roughly two-thirds ofAmericans default to theGeneralAmerican accent, with other dialects likeSouthern,AAVE, andChicano usually being considered lower prestige outside of entertainment and politics.
TheAmericans believe that all creatures have souls.
[2012,Jonathan Keates, ‘Mon Père, ce héros’,Literary Review, 402:
Within a few months the ‘slave Alexandre’ had been successfully transformed into what, across theChannel, was called a ‘blackamoordandy’.Parisians preferred the more politely euphemistic term ‘American’. ]
1871, United States. Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo,Report, with the Introductory Message of the President, Special Reports Made to the Commission, State Papers Furnished by the Dominican Government, and the Statements of Over Seventy Witnesses, page268:
-A . Spanish ; my mother and father speakAmerican ; my brothers and sisters speak Spanish ; when he is in the house , we speak American ; we have American prayers at night before we go to bed . Q. Is that usual in the families of the[…]
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1896,The North American Review, volume163, page28:
“Do you speakAmerican,” then asked the lady. “Oh, naow,” he replied with a still stronger emphasis. “But wouldn't you like to learn American?" persisted the lady. “Oh, naow, thanks," answered this sturdy little patriot.[…]
1945, Clarence I. Chatto, Alice L. Halligan,The Story of the Springfield Plan:
The fact that they speakAmerican and don ' t wear German uniforms makes them more dangerous than the Jerries themselves . What does your Springfield Plan do about them ? Here is a fighting challenge . In the light of this challenge the[…]
1909, Ambrose Bierce,Write it Right:
Donate forGive. GoodAmerican, but not good English.
1942, Rebecca West,Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published2006, page756:
We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us inAmerican.
1959,Anthony Burgess,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page490:
"Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. HisAmerican was better than Hassan's English.
1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna,Rush Hour, New Line Cinema:
JAMES CARTER: Mr. Rice-a-Roni; don't even speakAmerican.
2014, David Ayer,Fury, Columbia Pictures:
DON COLLIER: This is an American tank; we talkAmerican.
Within most English dialects,American now refers particularly to the people of the most populous English-speaking country in the Americas, the United States of America. Other senses now typically require qualifiers:Central American,Native American, etc. Some speakers maintain separate idiolects, however, includingsome Native Americans. Many Latin Americans alsopointedly maintain Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese's preference for usingAméricas to refer to the Americas generally, andestado-unidense andestadounidense when refering to both the country and its inhabitants.
Usage of unqualifiedAmerican as a language separate from or in place ofEnglish, though once sincere, is now typically considered a sign of poor education or used to mock others' supposed ignorance, parochialism, or excessive nationalism.
2009,John C. Hull,Options, Futures, and other Derivatives (Seventh Edition), Pearson Education, page182:
All of these trade on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Most of the contracts are European. An exception is the OEX contract on the S&P 100, which isAmerican.
Multi-dimensional option pricing becomes an important topic in financial markets (Franker et al., 2008). Among which, theAmerican-type derivative (e.g. the Bermudan option) pricing is a challenging problem.
2010, Johnathan Mun,Modeling Risk + DVD: Applying Monte Carlo Risk Simulation, Strategic Real Options, Stochastic Forecasting, and Portfolio Optimization (Second Edition), John Wiley & Sons:
Based on the analyses throughout the case study, it is recommended that the use of a model that assumes an ESO is European style when, in fact, the option isAmerican style with the other exotic variables should not be permitted, as this substantially overstates compensation expenses.
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