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Is British English acceptable in United States?

  • Yes

    Votes: 100 59.9%
  • No

    Votes: 21 12.6%
  • Sometimes

    Votes: 20 12.0%
  • I do not know what British English is.

    Votes: 7 4.2%
  • Why?

    Votes: 19 11.4%

  • Total voters
    167
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And of course there are so many different dialects within the UK you would be hard pushed to define British English.

Jock, Geordie, Scouse, Manc, Brum, Taff, Janner etc all have different words/accents

I mean the standard Received Pronunciation.
 
I would argue those from the home counties of England by definition pronounce English correctly

What about the American Southern accent that I heard is closest to what British people would have sounded like in 1700's? ;)
 
I would argue those from the home counties of England by definition pronounce English correctly

I would argue that that isn't true, because the current form of British English is no where near the original language, or even Old English.
 
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Didn't we already do this thread before or at least something very similar.
 
I would argue that that isn't true, because the current form of British English is no where near the original language, or even Old English.

Of course, I can see this argument, a language is dynamic thing that adds and looses words every year. But, I was brought up to believe the Oxford English Dictionary is the 'bible' of my language.
 
Of course, I can see this argument, a language is dynamic thing that adds and looses words every year. But, I was brought up to believe the Oxford English Dictionary is the 'bible' of my language.

See, that is the reason why should Americans switch to Esperanto. No more fighting over English. ;)
 
I think this thread has strayed far enough off-topic and is monopolising (spelled with an 's' ;)) just a little bit of the wrong sort of attention which none of us can be bothered to clean up.

It was interesting for a while but it's going beyond the bounds of reason now, particularly with comments meant to bump.

Let's move on to something else. :)
 
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