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Originally Posted by Osprey
Actually no dear chap. The main reason that our spelling is different is because in Britain the english language continued to evolve throughout the 18th, 19th and even 20th centuries, a living language, from cultural influences of mainland europe, in particular the French.
When the english language arrived in North America through the 17th century it was before these influences and shielded from them, in effect separated. So we see words like centre and center, colonise and colonize etc. Unfortunately globalisation and American made computer companies are teaching much of the World the Americanised spellings.
Of course this has little bearing on grammar and I have no doubt made many mistakes of my own here, however "ain't I right?" is surely in breach of many rules of english. 
Languages in use change and evolve, dead languages, like latin, are a constant. |
Two countries separated by a common language
. "Ain't I right?" also breaks several laws of physics, that's why I used it
. At least we're not the Scots....we go see a band every year called Albannach and I can't understand a word they say! (The music is awesome though)
I hope they get the accents right in SoW. I hear VERY American accents when flying for the RAF and I doubt many Yanks were flying for them in the South Pacific (could be wrong but I would be surprised). And the Geraman ground control always sounds angry.
BTW, if you don't like the way we have messed up the language thus far, wait until our kids come into their own...they're worse than the Scots
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