Introduction 3
1 General Information on the English Language and its MainVariants 5
1.1 History of Formation of English language 5
1.2 Development of Variants of English Language 11
2 Peculiarities of the Main Variants of English Language 15
2.1 Standard variety of English language 15
2.2 Analysis of lexical peculiarities of American, Canadian, Australian and Indian variants of English 17
Conclusion 27
Bibliography 29