American English arrived in the continent of America in the year of 1607.There are 120 colonists crossing the Atlantic Ocean and coming to America in May Flower. It was the first time for them to establish a settlement of the Great Britain. In 1620, the first group of Puritans arrived in Massachusetts and it was the first colony of theirs. At the time the Britain was controlled under the first Elizabeth, so the settlers brought with them the language of English then, which was the starting of American English. From the time on, there became a dramatic change between Britain English and American English.As it is known to us,the Elizabeth period was the second section of the Renaissance in Britain, in which many masterpeices of Shakespeare's were written at this time. In the point of view on the development of English, English in Elizabeth Period was the early modern English. And at that time, there was a great change which happened in English.So it could be seen that American English, in the way of pronunciation,vocabulary, even grammar, inherited a lot from the traditional way, which could be contributed to the historic reason. Also, modern American English remained a lot of characters in that of the Elizabeth Period.
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