<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/90102665-96ed-4e53-8be7-47a2fa9e2931/957D66DC-6E14-4EA5-AA68-FA669933F094/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_English&oldid=260083165" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_English&oldid=260083165" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_English&oldid=260083165"><P>The use of English in the United States was inherited from <A title="British colonization of the Americas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_colonization_of_the_Americas">British colonization</A>. The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America in the 17th century. During that time, there were also speakers in North America of <A title="Spanish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language">Spanish</A>, <A title="French language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language">French</A>, <A title="Dutch language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_language">Dutch</A>, <A title="German language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language">German</A>, <A title="Norwegian language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language">Norwegian</A>, <A title="Swedish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language">Swedish</A>, <A title="Scots language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language">Scots</A>, <A title="Welsh language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_language">Welsh</A>, <A title="Irish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language">Irish</A>, <A class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Gaelic language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language">Scottish Gaelic</A>, <A title="Finnish language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language">Finnish</A>, <A title="Russian language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language">Russian</A> (<A title="Alaska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska">Alaska</A>) and numerous <A class="mw-redirect" title="Native American languages" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_languages">Native American languages</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/957D66DC-6E14-4EA5-AA68-FA669933F094/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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