Nah - not all US accents are rhotic, and the UK has some rhotic accents too..
Prescriptiveness doesn't work for language, ever.
English imperialism actually offends me more than US imperialism. It's nice to think that nationalists exist only on the other side of the Atlantic but it certainly isn't true..
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James R. Johnson Sent: 19 September 2005 18:38 To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
When I went to London, I did have to ask what a secre tree was (any relation to the oak tree?). And a labora tree and an observa tree and a 'lie bree' and the 'straw bree'... :) Were I able to stay longer, perhaps I would have understood better.
And at least we pronounce the 'r' at the ends of words. :)
James
PS - note that this is a sarcastic e-mail. Don't take it that seriously.
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pawel Dembowski Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 10:37 AM To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia English English
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. American-English is an out and out dialect of English. How can English English be a dialect of English?
I presume you are referring to the dialect of the ruling classes.
American pronunciation is definitely more similar to 17th century English than British RP.
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