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Do you use British English, American or some different kind of English?
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British english 
I loved when me and my mates were in new york, a check out clerk refused to serve us because she couldn't understand our accent, we could bloody understand her....
I loved when me and my mates were in new york, a check out clerk refused to serve us because she couldn't understand our accent, we could bloody understand her....
in written forms I use English (refuse to call it brittish U/K english because it evolved as a language here). However, in speach, I use a mish-mash of Queens English, RP (recieved proninciation or BBC english), and various csots dialects, all with a south west scotland (verging on glaswiegian) accent watered down by time in the forces among mixed colloquial dialects. I've even deciphered some aberdonian phrases in my time up here. those make spell checkers cry
i.e. Fit like, ur ye fine? 'ats ahn awfie fine lukkin we quinie ye goat there. furribits ae fae?
translation; And how are you? Thats an awfully pretty little girl you have there. Where are you from.
and thats the watered down accents, there is a dialect about here reffered to as broad dornoch, and I won't even pretend to understand that.
i.e. Fit like, ur ye fine? 'ats ahn awfie fine lukkin we quinie ye goat there. furribits ae fae?
translation; And how are you? Thats an awfully pretty little girl you have there. Where are you from.
and thats the watered down accents, there is a dialect about here reffered to as broad dornoch, and I won't even pretend to understand that.
American English with a Pacific Northwest Dialect and some Californian and Texan Dialect thrown in.
Technically even British English doesn't exist. English English is distinctly different to Welsh or Scottish English, and even different areas of England have their own dialects.
Very true! And you got teenage/chav English (safe, sick, init)
. What was the first ever English dialect, I wonder?
I'm not from there (obv) but due to a stint in Bougainville can understand and though a bit rusty could speak it. I can't speak any of the 900 other languages of the area.
Presimably it was what they spoke in East Anglia.
"non angeli sed angli, innit?" as St Augustine said.
While not the first, they say my local dialect is one of the last examples of early English still spoken today.
The original
With a Saddleworthian accent, pip pip. Nah it's more a hodgepodge of Yorkshire and Lancashire but I pronounce my T's.
As in "t' mill"?
Doesn't the american[sic] language have any capital letters, dukebound85?
I speak English.
I speak the English with an American accent; I guess that makes it American English.
I've fixed that for you!
I wasn't aware american was a language? I thought it was a variation on English, forcing the 2 distinct British and American vartiations on English.
Over half the languages in the world. Amazing, isn't it?I'm not from there (obv) but due to a stint in Bougainville can understand and though a bit rusty could speak it. I can't speak any of the 900 other languages of the area.
I had a friend who spent a few years as Chief Librarian in Port Moresby. The tales he could tell, of almost-naked but fully-armed warriors with nose-bones turning up to borrow books on pig-farming. Edgy fun, through and through.
I refer to that as Dontchaknow English
And, being that for some reason there isn't an option, I speak Texan.
I predominantly speak Midwestern US English with a few Anglicisms and Canadicisms thrown in from my long line of friends from those places. Over the past several years, however, I've also become fairly proficient in Southern, so if any of y'all need a translator or anything, you give me a call, okay?
This is kind of stupid. The type of English you use depends on where you're from. I'm from Canada. There's no such thing as a proper English accent, so even English spoken with a Hong Kong accent is as English as "American English", and since none of the American accents, slang, etc, can be considered "true" American English, the thread is kind of limiting.
I speak Toronto English, or Southern Ontario English, I suppose.
I speak Toronto English, or Southern Ontario English, I suppose.