[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Mon Sep 19 14:44:11 UTC 2005


Stephen Forrest wrote:

>On 9/19/05, Jack & Naree <jack.macdaddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Americans seem to want to believe that they speak English, and we speak
>>British English in England (meaning Britain!). They are wrong. They speak a
>>dialect of our language, called American-English, an offshoot from the main
>>trunk if you will, which has evolved somewhat independently of English.
>>    
>>
>Look, this is getting tiresome.  
>
It's only tiresome if you take his proposal seriously.  Lighten up!

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