Original sentence: Americans are more likely than Britons to name a stream a creek if its breadth or volume is judged insufficient for it to be a river.The most conspicuous of these words are fall, the season; to quit, as in "to cease an activity" (as opposed to "to leave a location" as still used in most other Anglophone countries); and gotten as a past participle of get.This merger originated in Southern American English but is now widespread in the Midwest and West as well
Edited sentence: In most parts of the country, however, this mood is largely unknown, as it died out around the time of the American Civil War.The most conspicuous of these words are fall, the season and gotten as a past participle of get.This merger originated in Southern American English but is now more widespread, although often frowned upon