本篇文章通过回顾英语发展史和分析英语发展现状,从历时和共时角度对比和分析英国英语和美国英语在词汇方面的差异; 阐明美国英语是英语这一语种的一种变体,并非另一种语言。

• This article is intended to illrutrate diachronically and synchronically the lexical differences between British English and American English by tracing the history of English and analyzing the present stage of English development , asserting that American English is merely one of the English varieties rather than a different language.