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American English is closer to what English used to sound like than modern British English.
At what point in time? the language is nearly 1400 years old.
The way it sounded in the 1700s or so, specifically.
Okay. Do you have a source on that? Be interested to see how they could confirm that
There's no source, it's nonsense made up by a journalist
Here's one. It's not identical, just closer to the way it used to sound than modern British English is.
Dialect coach Meier understands the appeal of the idea that 17th-Century speech patterns have been perfectly preserved an ocean away. “It is a delightful and attractive myth that Shakespeare’s language got fossilised” in parts of the US.
Not a great source honestly, was expecting more of a linguistic study rather than this. Even the article doesn't entirely agree this is true.
English is a living language that has continued to evolve within its country of origin. Is your point that because the American dialect hasn't evolved as much suddenly makes it better somehow?
Additionally, English is the most common language on the planet and there are many dialects, but no one outside of England can claim theirs is the "correct form of english" because it's not their language.
This literally says what you're saying isn't true, except for the vague pronunciation of a single letter in one part of the US
Did you even read it? 😂
Source?
Search anything about how the modern American accent compares to older English. Here's an example.
Owlcation.com (wtf?) is not a source
Could you supply us with a proper one?
(Answer is "no" by the way)
It's historical fact. Look it up yourself or disbelieve it, I don't care.
I've looked it up multiple times. Quora isn't a source
It’s historical fact
It should be super easy to source that claim then
British English is not some monolith and was less homogeneous than it even is now at the time many were coming to the Americas. If this were true it would only be true for a particular region. English outside of the UK also diverged as it no longer followed trends happening there, and regional variations went in sometimes different directions.
Even within the US, English isn't super homogeneous. Look at Appalachian compared to California or someplace. Parts of Louisiana have unique features from Accadian and influence from Spanish.
That's absolute horseshit made up by a journalist on a slow news day, by the way
Really? I thought this was only the case with Quebecois and French
Yup, really. Annoying when you see comments about how Americans don't speak proper English. The Brits are the ones who changed how it was spoken the most!
American's
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“French” Canadian got off lightly on this on then?
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Out-Brit'g the Brits for 250.
