... notion of standard in language is notoriously difficult to pindown. Although many people would claim to be able to recognise astandard version of their own language, it is very difficult to provide ... firstdictionaries to make a serious attempt to list new American meaningsfor old terms and to list new American words unknown in England. Thedictionary is often criticised for not having listed many Americanisms(perhaps ... speakingFrench, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian and so on. Perhaps inanother few hundred years, we will similarly say that people talk‘American’, ‘Australian’ and ‘South African’ instead of...