Submitted 1 year ago by Madbrad200@lemmy.world to britishproblems@feddit.uk
On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it’s a thing
Is there really even a difference between British english and American english besides a few alternate spellings (like colour vs color) and alternate names for things (like fries vs chips)?
See all, ear all, say nowt. Eat all, sup all, pay nowt. An’ if th’ivver does owt for nowt, allus do it for thissen.
Cost kick a bo againt a wo an’ then ‘it it wi’ thi yed till it bosses?
I could care less.
Or could I?
Kreg / Craig
Ow, ow, ow, noooooo!
English (Traditional)
English (Simplified)
One’s for divvies
To be fair, a lot, but certainly not all of Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration to Northern America. Language in many cases evolved more rapidly in Europe. In a related way, quite a bit of the ways in which Mexican Spanish differs from Spanish Spanish sounds very archaic to young Spanish ears, or so I’m told.
I remember seeing a web site where they had the British flag next to “English” and the American next to “English (Simplified)”
There are a lot of subtle differences. That being said, they're mutually-intelligable. Even if you don't know the other variety, you can probably figure out just about everything from context.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_and_British_English
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
As an American, that’s bollox