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> [Brits] have been speaking English for much longer than Americans The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. American English was not sudd
by drewcoo 3y ago
> [Brits] have been speaking English for much longer than Americans
The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. American English was not suddenly invented out of whole cloth in 1783.
> Give America a thousand years and chances are that some people will end up speaking something completely unintelligible to others.
It doesn't really work that way now. The US has only had a relatively unified spoken language with the advent of national radio and television networks. Regions largely lost their dialects once everyone started consuming the same media.
- yongjik 3y ago> The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. Yes, but immigration involved language mixing. It's not like a remote village in Scotland could elect two hundred people to hop on a ship, cross the sea, and settle down in another remote village in Montana. For their kids born in America, they would have been lucky to find one other family that spoke the same dialect. So the differences averaged out, in the same way kids growing up in London speak London's dialect regardless of where their ancestors came from.