Well, I've been thinking, "Americans have a pretty easy way of spelling things" (don't quote me on that). And then I go look at a bunch of british vids on youtube and see that they use o and u to make the or sound. So wats the deal?
So is it considered american english and british english?
Yes. Those are two dialects of the same language. The individual regions they belong to have much more variety than the "American vs British" grouping suggests. Also remember that an accent mainly refers to differences only in pronunciation, whilst an accent is more different (pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, etc.).
False. Your are not letting us use it, we took it (and improved it) like we took the country.
Improved? Don't be so subjective.
but we're letting you use it, and we don't want to have to take it back. So don't question it and don't complain about it!
It's hardly surprising that the Americans developed different spellings of our words, it was the 17th century when we split after all, the language we speak today wasn't completely 'cemented' back then and certain spelling variations were normal from area to area anyway.
I was going to say I agree, but then this happened to me. I searched "ants" on Merriam-Webster.com and it didn't turn up a direct result. Then I typed in pant and got this:
Definition of PANT
1: an outer garment covering each leg separately and usually extending from the waist to the ankle -usually used in plural
2 plural chiefly British : men's underpants
3 plural : pantie
Is the word "ants" slang? Does the word "ants" mean underpants in Britain or does the word "ant" mean underwear in Britain? Is the word "ants" not the plural form of the word? Is pantie the correct plural form? If so, why do people say "anties"? _____________________________________________________
Back to the original topic. America is a hodgepodge of different languages. There were settlers that came to America from Germany, Spain, Britain, France, etc. I assume the different countries had different influences on the spelling and pronunciation. http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/english/2005/04/center_or_centr.html This link might help explain what I'm trying to say better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English If you have time to read it, it explains how some words came into the American Lexicon because of Native Americans and the Spanish as well as some other interesting stuff.
According to Wikipedia, 'Pants' is used in Australia so I don't really care, most of our language is the same as the Brits and I assumed 'Pants' would be too.
I love an English accent, but I hate how their so elegant in their talking.
Someone told me that their way of talking is more decent than english.
And that's why australians have the most awesome accent in the world. It's like all the awesome of british accent, with all the indecency of american dialect.
