Anglo-American

Anglo-American is a term usually implying a relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom (specifically England), or the two countries' shared language (English) and/or cultural heritage. In this context the term may refer to:

• English American, a person from the United States whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England
• A person from the United States who speaks English as their first language (see American English)
• A collective term referring to those countries that have similar legal systems based on common law
• United Kingdom–United States relations, relations between the United Kingdom and United States
• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, a national cataloging code

The term is also used, less frequently, to denote a connection between English people (or the English language) and the Western Hemisphere as a whole. In this context the term can mean:

• A person from the Americas whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England (see British diaspora)
• A person from the Americas who is a White American and speaks English as their first language.
• A person from the Americas who speaks English as their first language (see English-speaking world and Languages of the Americas)
• A person from Anglo-America

Businesses

• Anglo American plc, a British multinational mining company
• Anglo-American Publishing, a Canadian comic book publishing company active during the 1940s

See also

• American English (disambiguation)
• Anglosphere
• British American