H. L. Mencken

“ Early in May, 1920, in discussing “La Poésie américaine d’aujourd’hui” in Les Marges, Eugène Montfort argued that American showed every sign of being more vigorous than English, and would eventually take on complete autonomy. A philologist of Scandinavian extraction, Elias Molee, has gone so far as to argue that the acquisition of correct English, to a people grown so mongrel in blood as the Americans, has already become a useless burden. ”

“ In other Continental works of the same sort there is a like differentiation between English and American. Baedeker follows suit. In his guide-book to the United States, prepared for Englishmen, he is at pains to explain the meaning of various American words and phrases. Asiatics are equally observant of the fast-growing differences. ”

“ Braunschweig, 1848.↑ Étude sur l’Anglais Parlé aux États Unis (la Langue Américaine) , Actes de la Société Philologique de Paris, March, 1874.↑ Metoula-Sprachführer... Englisch von Karl Blattner; Ausgabe für Amerika ”