People from Great Britain brought the English language to North America in the 16th and 17

People from Great Britain brought the English language to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. And in the     36     300 years, there were so many    _37     in both places that now people can easily    _38     an English person from an American in the    _39     he or she talks.
Many old words    _40     in England but were kept in America．For example,300 years ago people in Great Britain got their water from something they    41    either a“faucet”,“spigot”,or a“tap”.All these words are    _42     heard in different parts of America, but only “tap”is still    _43_ in England．Americans often make    _44     new words or change old ones. “Corn”is one kind of plant in America and    45     in England．
Also, over the last three centuries the English language has    _46     thousands of new words for things that weren’t    _47     before. And often, American and English people used two    48     names for them. A tin can is called“tin”for short in English, but a “can”in America．The word “radio”is    49    all over the world, including America．But many English people call it a “wireless”.And almost anything    _50     something to do with cars, railroads, etc．has different    _51     in British and American English.
But now American and British English may be    _52     closer together. One thing is that     53_ people can hear a large amount of American speech daily in    _54    , on television, or from travelers. Because of this, Americans    _55     to be influencing the British more and more. So some day, English may even be the same on both sides of the Atlantic．
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