English: Characteristics Of American English

I found an undated, hand-written note regarding "Characteristics of American English."

The penmanship was exquisite, possibly from one of my teachers in eighth grade but why would a teacher write all this? It certainly is not May's handwriting; it could be mine, but doesn't quite look like my hand-writing.

Can't decipher everything but this is my transcription.

• general uniformity throughout the country
• disregard for grammatically, syntactical, and phonological rule and precedent
• its large capacity for taking in new words and phrases from outside sources and for manufacturing them of its own materials -- tendency to add to [rfac] without limit and no compunction about adding words anyway
• no rules about adding to voc. [ways]: this was in the margin opposite the above bullet
  
• more informal than British English
• tendency to shorten and leave out unnecessary letters (this is very true of much of Spanish, but not all)
• tends to get away from hard and fast rules of grammar -- this line was crossed out
• informal about taking in words and how these words should be used -- this line was also crossed out
• take a word and give it a different pronunciation
• less conservative than British English
• reduce complex concepts to the starkest abbreviations -- this line was also crossed out
• tendency to increase functional usage of a word
• tendency to revolt against conventional words and restraints
• tendency to borrow from other languages