04-09-2013, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by AudreyII
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We are not amused.. 
04-09-2013, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by ben-varrey
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Many people dislike the change in English and the many Americanisms that now appear in everyday language (from watching a lot of American tv and films). It's inevitable it will happen but there are those who dislike it (I'm one of them but I don't get angry about it. Thanks to my granddaughters, I even now use the word 'random' the same way they do!
04-09-2013, 05:24 PM
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Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States.Studies on historical usage of English in the United States and the United Kingdom show that spoken American English did not simply evolve from British English, but rather retained many archaic features British English has since lost.
Differences in grammar are relatively minor. These include: different preferences for the past forms of a few verbs (for example, learned/learnt, burned/burnt, snuck/sneaked, dove/dived.) Often, these differences are a matter of relative preferences rather than absolute rules since the two varieties are constantly influencing each other.
04-09-2013, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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Yes Audrey darlin' - but notwithstanding the corrupt spelling Americans use, 'we' (i.e UK) got there first and I think the Americans are somewhat piqued at that, since the language is ENGLISH, not AMERICAN.
04-09-2013, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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Of course it's their native tongue when English was taken over to USA we spoke very differently here, we developed one way they went their own way which was perfectly normal I think. We now both speak slightly differently to each other and some things make far more sense in American English and some things in English English. 
04-09-2013, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Markey
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Approximately two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in the United States.Studies on historical usage of English in the United States and the United Kingdom show that spoken American English did not simply evolve from British English, but rather retained many archaic features British English has since lost.
Differences in grammar are relatively minor. These include: different preferences for the past forms of a few verbs (for example, learned/learnt, burned/burnt, snuck/sneaked, dove/dived.) Often, these differences are a matter of relative preferences rather than absolute rules since the two varieties are constantly influencing each other.
04-09-2013, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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That's interesting I think for some idiotic reason more English speakers in England forgetting obviously we are a small Island with far fewer people LOL
English is the most widely spoken language worldwide (given that all airlines communicate in English) so it's not that surprising.
English, as a spoken language, had no uniformity even within England until the mid-1600s. Given that the Mayflower set sail in 1620 (or thereabouts), it's not surprising that their spelling would differ to ours or that their pronunciation is slightly different.
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