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Yet you'll find sources that claim spoken American English is closer to historical British English, because of some aspects like rhoticity. [1] [1] https://www
by Brybry 2y ago
Yet you'll find sources that claim spoken American English is closer to historical British English, because of some aspects like rhoticity. [1]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-p...
- mst 2y agoThose are all claims about the accent (my understanding of said claims is basically "sounds reasonable but also I have no idea what I'm talking about"). I was more thinking about the words/grammar/idiom etc. (also as a Lancastrian I find e.g. Deep Somerset barely comprehensible, especially when the speaker is a few pints in, but their wording is still usually closer to mine than the USians' is)