AmE

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ame"

English

Proper noun

AmE

1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of American English.
   • 2022, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds, A Student's Introduction to English Grammar, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page xiii:

     The authors, between them, have decades of experience teaching this material in Britain, Australia, Canada, and the USA. Although the two great dialect clusters of English – British and Australasian (BrE) and North American (AmE) – do differ syntactically in a few minor ways, the differences are almost always a matter of preferences rather than prohibitions, and they give rise to remarkably few difficulties for exposition.

Related terms

(American English):

• SAE (“Standard American”)
• BrE
• NZE

Anagrams

• EAM, EMA, Mae, eam, ema