submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

why is this not one way or the other?

addendum: wow, thanks everyone. I truly never knew it was a British vs. American spelling thing.

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[–] -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Fun fact: southern Americans speak English more traditionally than anyone else. The British have fucked up the pronunciation so hard at this point. Their spelling is typically more traditional though, yeah.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    People say this a lot but it's just not true

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    That doesn't actually say that it isn't the closest to a classical British accent. It only says it's diverged from the modern one. Yeah, it isn't the same as the classical British accent, but I believe it preserves more of the characteristics than other English accents have. They've all diverged, but some less than others.

    IIRC, there's an island that's very isolated in the US who's accent is as close as possible to a classic British accent, but it's a population of maybe a few dozen people, if that even at this point.

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