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Western American English (also known as Western U.S. English or in the U.S., simply, Western) is a variety of American English that largely unites the entire western half of the United States as a single dialect region, including the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. It also broadly encompasses Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, some of whose speakers are often separated into their own Pacific Northwest variety. The West was the last area in the United States to be reached during the gradual westward expansion of English-speaking settlement and its history shows considerable mixing of the linguistic patterns of other regions. As the settlement populations are relatively young when compared with other regions, the American West is a dialect region in formation. Due to its origins, Western U.S. English has more similarities than differences with the English of the Eastern U.S., and very few similarities with Southern U.S. English.〔Hopkins, Tometro; Kendall Decker; and John McKenny (eds.) (2013). ''(World Englishes )'' Volumes I-III Set: Volume I: The British Isles Volume II: North America Volume III: Central America. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 173.〕 == Vocabulary == *''baby buggy'' as opposed to ''baby carriage'' (more common east of the Mississippi River, mixed in the region between the Mississippi and Appalachian Mountains, rare east of the Appalachians)〔Craig M. Carver, ''American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography'' (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1987), pp. 206f〕 *''buckaroo'': cowboy. Originating in California, it is an Anglicization of the Mexican ''vaquero''; the corresponding term which originated in Texas is "wrangler" or "horse wrangler", itself an Anglicization of the Mexican ''caballerango''.〔Carver, ''American Regional Dialects'', p. 223〕 *''gunnysack'' as opposed to ''burlap bag'' (the latter more common east of the Mississippi)〔 *''hella'': adverb; ''very'', adjective; ''much'' ''many'' *''mud hen'': a common term for the American coot〔 *''shivaree'' as opposed to ''belling'' or ''serenade'' ("shivaree" is the more common usage east of the Mississippi and in Kentucky and Tennessee; "belling" is the more common usage in Ohio, while "serenade" is the more common usage in Atlantic states—except New York and Connecticut—and the Appalachians)〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western American English」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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