It's the other ones that make up the UK with them. You should consider reading about it online if you really need evidence.
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It's the other ones that make up the UK with them. You should consider reading about it online if you really need evidence.
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Northern Ireland? That's like a backwater that almost no mainland brits ever go to.
I don't really know what you're talking about. The articles seem to be focused on grammar. Accents are another thing.
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Accents have nothing to do with language. A language is a grammar (the rules) and a lexicon (the words). An accent is just how a person or group of people sounds when putting said words into sentences. The reason American English is closer to 18th century English from England was because we had no other English speaking countries around us, so it became fossilized, so to speak. That was it. That was the only English we had. The people to the north spoke French, and the ones to the south spoke some form of Spanish, and the native heathens had their own languages. Meanwhile, back in the UK, the Queen's English carried on its merry way encountering other English speaking countries that neighbor England. American English has evolved in the past 200 years to include new slang, but that's what languages do. Check out John McWhorter if you want an accessible linguist
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I think Modern British English may well use different grammatical styles than older forms of English, but I doubt that's due to Scottish or Welsh influence (there are zero other English speaking countries "neighbouring" England) and I doubt the Irish had that much influence either. Contact with entirely different languages does tend to create changes in both, actually, people in border regions of Europe often speak odd versions of the national language. The point I'm making is that it seems pretty likely to me that the many other nationalities that migrated to America probably have influence American English and they've probably influenced it about as much as Scotland and Wales have influence modern English. I think you're overestimating the importance of Scotland and Wales anyway, they have tiny populations and make up tiny percentages of the British economy, the accents are associated with poverty and backwardness.
Language historians don't agree with your opinions, so you can stop acting indignant about it already. It's getting annoying.
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If it's the case that American English is closer to original English because America was isolated in terms of language influence, why is it that Australia speaks a much more British form of English compared to America?
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Australia is historically less isolated from Britain than the United States and was also settled later than the United States.
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I provided links that have explained pretty much everything on the subject since my post.....
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You are generalizing too much to speak of "British English" as a whole, since some varieties of British English are definitely more old-fashioned than pretty much anything you'll find in North America.
