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Originally Posted by Splitter
The language may have been invented over there, but we perfected it over here....ain't I right?  |
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.
10-09-2010, 09:00 PM
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