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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is there really even a big difference between British english and American english besides a few alternate spellings (like colour vs color) and alternate names for things (like fries vs chips)?

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      1 year ago

      See all, ear all, say nowt. Eat all, sup all, pay nowt. An’ if th’ivver does owt for nowt, allus do it for thissen.

      • david@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        To be fair, a lot, but certainly not all of Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration to Northern America. Language in many cases evolved more rapidly in Europe. In a related way, quite a bit of the ways in which Mexican Spanish differs from Spanish Spanish sounds very archaic to young Spanish ears, or so I’m told.

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          Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration

          That was utter claptrap made up by journalists to sell a few papers and has been completely disproved