American English - A Contradiction in Terms, Why American Students Have Trouble With the SAT
The correct English used in the United States is actually not all that dissimilar from the English used everywhere in the world. The vocabulary that is considered accurate on the American SAT and used in edited papers and publications varies little from country to country, with the exception of a few minor spelling differences and a few terms whose meanings are slightly different. However, compared to practically any other nation's English-speaking population, Americans appear to deviate more from the written standard in their speech. Although non-native English speakers' speech often contains some unidiomatic expressions and has a wide range of accents, none of these factors appear to be as problematic for English language learners as the sloppy and poorly constructed American speech. None appears to need extra editing to meet the language standards for college papers. The majority of British, Swedish, German, French, and Polish academics appear to speak varieties of English