Influences of American English on SAE

[cns1511]

Does anyone know any good sites (or have information already) on the influences of American English on Standard Australian English?

I have to write an essay on it for school, and can only find a few different points.

I need to identify which subsystems each influence belongs to and provide examples.

Any help would be great, thanks.

[mypurpleundercracka]

there's stuff on Australian English on Wikipedia, talks about "Americanization"

[Eriny]

I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

[cns1511]

I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

Yeah, I have the 'ize' vs 'ise' point. Thanks for the example

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I always spell 'Americanization' with the 'z', even though I don't use the 'z' for 'globalisation' and so on. It seems appropriate.

Yeah, I have the 'ize' vs 'ise' point. Thanks for the example

Yeah, and bloody microsoft used to have the default language for Microsoft spellcheck as U.S. English. Don't know if it's still like that, my Microsoft Word is horribly outdated

[UprightMan]

The 'different' spellcheck Englishes are non-existent; they all conform to 'American' English.

A point you can bring up is that SAE is strongly resistant to USA English; the Broad/General/Cultivated Australian accents still exist and changes with them remain largely self-driven, rather than being hugely affected by the outside world. 

When is/was the essay due? =p

[cns1511]

It was due on 2nd February. I still haven't done it, but my teacher doesn't seem to care. The information is helpful though. Thanks