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TextFYI, there is no such thing as a "British" accent, in so far as there is no such thing as an "American" accent. Even in regions or towns only a few miles apart, very different accents are prevalent.
You'll love the real reason even more... To put into context, the suffix -ingham means "place of" in Anglo Saxon. Orignally, the first Anglo Saxon Chieftain of the area was called Snot, hence Snotingham and it has morphed into Nottingham...
Not sure if your being ironic or don't get it, but if you don't like something but then say "I could care less", surely that then means you do care about the very thing your trying to say you don't care about. It's a logical fallacy.
also discovered that British English is evolving at a faster rate than its transatlantic counterpart, meaning that in many instances it is the American speakers who are sticking to more ‘traditional’ speech patterns.
In fact, in some cases it is the other way around. British English, for whatever reason, is innovating and changing while American English remains very conservative and traditional in its speech patterns
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In the early days, British travelers in the American colonies often commented on the ‘purity’ of the English spoken in the new world. It wasn’t until the American impertinence of 1776 that Americans seem to have begun ruining English
The differences between American and British are not due to Americans changing from a British standard. American is not corrupt British plus barbarisms. Rather, both American and British evolved in different ways from a common sixteenth-century ancestral standard. Present-day British is no closer to that earlier form than present-day American is. Indeed, in some ways present-day American is more conservative, that is, closer to the common original standard than is present-day British.
Some examples of American conservatives versus British innovation are these: Americans generally retain the r-sound in words like more and mother, whereas the British have lost it. Americans generally retain the ‘flat a’ of cat in path, calf, class,whereas the British have replaced it with the ‘broad a’ of father. Americans retain a secondary stress on the second syllable from the end of words like secretary and dictionary, whereas the British have lost both the stress and often the vowel, reducing the words to three syllables, ‘secret’ry’
Instead of the "two streams" or two separate languages that Mencken originally envisaged British and American English to be, it would be more accurate to consider Modern British English to be one result of that period of linguistic transition, and American English to be another.
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
So you saying that even in Britain there are different accents in whatever the language is there, but in the usa there is no such thing as a British accent....Interesting.
You'll love the real reason even more... To put into context, the suffix -ingham means "place of" in Anglo Saxon. Orignally, the first Anglo Saxon Chieftain of the area was called Snot, hence Snotingham and it has morphed into Nottingham...
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
I see now that some people really do need charts, graphs, and pictures to explain that....But fortunately I care less so wont be doing it, or linking to any explanations. And I will continue to care less, because I can and want to care less. You however are not allowed to care less, just like your not allowed to sit down at the queens little parties or when she passes by.
The tiny island community has attracted the attention of linguists because its people speak a unique English Restoration era dialect of American English. Each of the original inhabitants' surnames, many of which are still found on the island, originated in the United Kingdom.
Many of the inhabitants still have the surname Crockett. Pruitt, Thomas, Marshall, Charnock, Dise, and Parks are other common surnames on the island
The most notable feature of the island is the local dialect which is like the dialect of the West Country of England. The dialect contains some relict features indicative of its origins but is not, as is often claimed, a surviving pocket of Shakespearean-era English.[5] This dialect is like the Ocracoke Brogue,[6] sometimes referred to as the Outer Banks Brogue.[7][8]
Originally posted by Chamberf=6
I never understood why the British pronounce "aluminum" as "aluminium".
There is no second "i" in the word...
edit on 11/25/2011 by Chamberf=6 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by galadofwarthethird
And by the way I could care less and I will care less. What is so hard to understand about that phrase. What do you all need pictorials and graphs to understand that simple fact? Does somebody really need to draw you all a picture.
Originally posted by randyvs
Hugo Weaving, american or british born ?
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by steveknows
I mean the guys teeth would be perfect for an ad- vertise - ment from the sergeon general.
Did he just chew R.J. Reynolds out of business or what ? No doubt everything he eats turns to crap.
Whether he swallows or not.
Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
Originally posted by steveknows
Oh you've "watched" it have you? Never been brave enough to play it?
''Brave enough'' ? Behave yourself !
I have no wish to play Aussie Rules. It's a really, really gay sport.
I'll stick to rugby union. At least I'm safer in the showers.
edit on 25-11-2011 by Sherlock Holmes because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by stumason
Originally posted by steveknows
Oh goody a troll. But not just any troll. This is one who is jealous because his ancesters didn't leave england and now he's stuck with low living standards and bad teeth.
I think you're taking him to seriously. If you've seen Sherlock post before, then you'd know that a lot of what he says takes it to an ironic extreme, take it all with a pinch of salt, he's having a laugh not being serious.
Following on from that, do we really need to trot out the old bad teeth remarks and the "low living standards" thing is such a low blow, considering we don't have low living standards that your taking an ironic, tongue in cheek bit of banter and replying with something that is actually quite offensive.
Can't we just maintain the friendly banter without making it personal?
Originally posted by studio500
I appreciate English & US English both by way of spelling and pronunciation.
I do wonder however how these changes came about.
Could it have been due to early perhaps slightly illiterate settlers or could it have been the result of influence from other languages?
I'm facinated by language but in the end I think the US way just adds a little idividuality which I think is cool.