How Americans preserved British English

[lonewolf]

in the meantime we cant understand a word they say, no wonder I keep channel hopping.

 

[DrHenley]

Alabama has or had the purest representation of the southern accent, very distinct from the rest of the South in my opinion.

Depends on where in Alabama. The Black Belt, which includes Montgomery, certainly has a real Southern Accent.

 

[DrHenley]

This is a Southern accent

 

[Maverick]

This is a Southern accent

I'll be at home and more comfortable, good Southern talk is soothing in conversation, up here in Washington it's like having a jackhammer doing the talking, slow-draw drives them nuts up a wall here, they stare at ya like 'hurry up and finish the conversation you backwards inbred'

 

[Maverick]

 

[tmttactical]

I don't care what you call the meal, just be sure to call me to the table.

 

[Gazrok]

We actually talk the way they used to.

I don't think so, the 18th century British couldn't spell properly either!

However, it is WE who don't spell properly. But, there is a reason.

When we started using print media, items cost by the letter. So, we shortened words that used extraneous vowels, etc. Colour became color, shoppe became shop, etc.

 

[lonewolf]

We actually talk the way they used to.



However, it is WE who don't spell properly. But, there is a reason.

When we started using print media, items cost by the letter. So, we shortened words that used extraneous vowels, etc. Colour became color, shoppe became shop, etc.

well that explains a lot!

 

[DrHenley]

Actually you can thank Noah Webster and his A Compendious Dictionary of the English language published in 1806 for saving us from superfluous vowels. Along with the Chicago Tribune, and Teddy Roosevelt.