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"Fran Farmer" wrote in message ... On 7/12/2015 11:05 AM, Christina Websell wrote: "Martin" wrote in message ... On Sun, 6 Dec 2015 09:12:51 +1100, Fran Farmer wrote: On 6/12/2015 8:43 AM, Christina Websell wrote: "David Hill" wrote in message ... On 05/12/2015 20:44, Christina Websell wrote: Americans think they speak English, I can assure them that they don't. Glad that has been sorted out once and for all. grin Americans used to speak English once: now it's American. I saw a very interesting TV show quite a few years ago on just this topic. It suggested that the English now spoken by Americans is more like the English spoken in the UK a few centuries ago than the sort of English now spoken in the UK. The show cited both words still used by Americans that have changed use over time in the UK and the accent. One example I recall is the way Americans still use the word "kettle" (ie, a cooking pot, not a spouted water boiling thingamabob) which is the way it used to be used in the UK centuries ago. Also the accent in the long "a" when American say "bath" is the way it used to be said in the UK centuries ago. The way bath is pronounced in UK depends on where one comes from. -- English is constantly evolving and it evolves from the UK. Because we are English and it's our language. "OUR"???? Americans speak American. Do you have a faucet in your house, does your car have a hood or fender? I rest my case. I'd say, first put forward a case. for what? English is English, American is American. American is a derative of English: it was once English, now it isn't. |
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