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American English (variously abbreviated AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), also called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States and widely adopted in Canada.

English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and is the common language used by the federal government, considered the de facto language of the country because of its widespread use.

English has been given official status by 32 of the 50 state governments.

As an example, while both Spanish and English have equivalent status in the local courts of Puerto Rico, under federal law, English is the official language for any matters being referred to the United States district court for the territory.

Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially known for its dictionaries.

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, etc.

or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a lexicon.

It is a lexicographical product which shows inter-relationships among the data.

The name Webster's Dictionary may refer to any of the line of dictionaries first developed by Noah Webster in the early nineteenth century and numerous unrelated dictionaries that adopted Webster's name just to share his prestige.

The term "Webster's" has become a generic trademark in the U.S. for dictionaries of the English language.

For this reason the term may otherwise refer to any dictionary at all that chooses to use the name.

Also, "Webster's" is often used to refer to a generic dictionary.

(However, the only succeeding dictionaries that can trace their lineage to the one established by Noah Webster are those now published by Merriam-Webster).

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere.

It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea.