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Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.
Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.
Every state has to pick a different British dialect though
Can't wait for Black Country Texas. Going to be an insane sound with that southern drawl lol
You think English in the UK hasn't evolved in the last few hundred years?
Not to mention that despite the impact of TV and radio, UK accents are wildly variant and it's pretty much a guarantee that there'll be corners that don't make distinctions between at least two of these words.
There's no such thing as "regular English" in the UK; the Thames Estuary accent is prescriptivism, not regularity.
Sure it did, I'm saying it remained regular.
US English is , in some cases, more conservative than British English. A lot of words in the us were used by those from the UK that came. But later fell out of fashion in the UK
Even more unpopular opinion: British royals should hire Americans to relearn those unfashionable words lol
The US has one of the oldest living dialects of English. Linguists argue whether Appalachian English is a mostly preserved dialect of 16th century Elizabethan English or an unusually conservative dialect of 18th century Colonial English.
Y'ont folks ta git back ta talkin right have em talk hillbilly.