Let's consolidate English and American

[shemnel]

i think this might have already happened 30 or 40 years ago.....

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I doubt there is any such thing as American or British English; there are many different Englishes and that’s something to be cherished and preserved. So many things in American English are things that have persisted there that have fallen out of fashion in England. As for some accents:

Sounds weird but still definitely American. Things like “where they at?”, “I can be most anywhere” or the long drawl on the last word with the almost Australianesque inflection , “and write on thaaaat!”.

Plus the ridiculous clothing of course.

 

[BimboBob]

You can piss off with that ’sidewalk’ shit. It’s pavement ffs

and don’t even get me started on aluminium

It's actually footway.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Isn’t it true that the majority of American spelling of words are in fact the original English spelling? Or at least the spelling at the time. And it’s us who have since changed them, while the Yanks have stuck with how it was back then?

It was Noah Webster who tried to standardise the spellings of English words in America in the late 18th century that mainly caused the split by removing unnecessary letters such as ‘u’ in colour and flavour etc. The spellings we use are a throwback to French and other languages that influenced ours from medieval days. Or should that be mediaeval?

He wrote the first official dictionary that was used in schools over there. His name lives on in the Merriam-Webster publishing company.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Happy Monday ya'll.
Have a blessed day and happy holidays!

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Love watching Triple D but fuck me it’s annoying listening to them say cilantro, erbs, orEGano and worst of all Worcestersersersershire sauce!

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Been in Yanksville 12 years now and still refuse to give up the Queens / King's English.

On all my reports or emails at work I refuse to remove the U in words such as in colour and keep the S there instead of a Z such as organisation. And it's Zed not fucking Zee.

English is a language, can't you read......

I hate to break this to you but the ‘z’ was the original English and is still the preferred spelling in the Oxford dictionary.

The change to ‘s’ evolved afterwards in British English.

It’s something about words being derived from Greek, I remember learning about it in school.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Love watching Triple D but fuck me it’s annoying listening to them say cilantro, erbs, orEGano and worst of all Worcestersersersershire sauce!

It’s hilarious listening to Americans try and say Worcestershire

 

[KS55]

I hate to break this to you but the ‘z’ was the original English and is still the preferred spelling in the Oxford dictionary.

The change to ‘s’ evolved afterwards in British English.

It’s something about words being derived from Greek, I remember learning about it in school.

Lots of stuff popularly believed to be American is, in fact, the original British English. It’s us who have changed. See ‘Color‘ etc.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Had to give my 8 year old son a bollocking yesterday as another kid at school had taught him to sing "America FUCK YEAH!"