Actually that's not far off. Linguists speculate that American English pronunciation in the northeast is similar to that of English English 200+ years ago. So you could say that we speak the King's English. (Down with the king!)
They say the same about Canadian French--what's spoken in Quebec today is closer to 18th century French than modern French spoken in France. -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology > 2. Re: [Talk-us] Bar vs Pub vs Restaurant in the US? (Kevin Kenny) >"The Queen's English? Of course I can speak the Queens English. I was >born >in Queens." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
