Contents Introduction

1.2 Regional varieties of English
As we have already mentioned, there are several types of English: British, American, Australian, New Zealand, South African, Nigerian, Indian, Singaporean and many new Englishes. In this section, we will look at some of them. A detailed review within the framework of one coursework is unfortunately not possible, so we present only the main features.
The differences between English in Great Britain, the United States, Australia and Canada are particularly noticeable phonetically. However, these differences are limited to articulatory-acoustic properties of some phonemes, some differences in the use of others, differences in speech rhythm and intonation. Some features of phonemes in American pronunciation are foreign to English literary standards, but may be acceptable in some English dialects.
There are not many differences in vocabulary. Most of them are inconsistencies in the semantic structure of words and their use.
Differences in grammar are mainly the substitution of a grammatical category or form for another. For example, preferring the Past Infinitive over the American version of the Present Prefect in English, or creating the Future Tense form with the auxiliary verb will for all conjugations. Recent studies have shown that the future present continuous is used twice as often in English than in American, Canadian and Australian; infinitive constructions are used less often in American (AmE) and English (BrE) and Australian (AuE), while passive constructions, on the other hand, are used more in America than in Great Britain and Australia. (R. 3. Ginzburg, 1979., pp. 200 - 205).
Since BrE, AmE, and AuE have similar grammatical systems, phonetic systems, and overall vocabulary, they cannot be considered different languages. They cannot even be classified as dialects.
1.2.1 American English
The variant of English spoken in the United States is called American English. American English cannot be called a dialect, even though it is a regional variant, because it has a literary form, according to the American National Standard definition of a dialect, it does not have a literary form. Nor can AmE be considered a separate language.
AmE appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries, when the active colonization of the North American continent began. It is known that the British played the main role in this process. It is worth noting that before the beginning of colonialism in England, the national literary norm of the language was already formed, the so-called standard English (SE), which performs a higher communicative function than the dialect