Ag65
  Junior Editor

British English is the dialect of the English language spoken in Britain. American English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the United States of America. We do not speak of American French or American German because French and German are spoken by relatively few people in the U.S. On the other hand, English is
the overwhelmingly dominant language in our country. This is because we were settled and founded by English-speaking people from England and the rest of Britain. Over time, the language spoken by the peoples on the separate sides of the Atlantic diverged somewhat from each other, and we were left with similar but distinct dialects. more »