One of the main objections to this America came from Dr. Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, "I am willing to love all mankind, except an American," he wrote. Likewise, many colonists saw in Johnson everything they disliked about the mother country -- and yet they continued to read, and even admire, the work of this propagandist for King George III, Lynch (2005). However, it was not only British English that was having directional influences that America was going to take. The Spanish occupied the west and south-west. The French were present in the northern territories and throughout the middle regions, the Dutch were in New York, and the Germans began to arrive at the end of the 17th centaury. There were also large numbers of African slaves coming into
