Originally posted by mixtec
The reason that European english sounds american has nothing to do with the media or armed forces deployment. If you’ve ever heard a European speak english in an old film, say back in the 30s, you’ll see their english is the same as now. Thats because they are taught Oxford enlish which is english with absolute grammatical and phonetic precision. I’m not saying that british english isn’t correct, just that the majority speak it with some form of accent just as americans have their local accents.
When I lived in Edinburgh I was told by more than one person that the clearest English was spoken by people from the Inverness area. I don’t know if thats true as I don’t think I ever met anyone from Inverness whilst I was there.
As for some American words being different to ours I remember 2 friends of mine from the States who were living in Edinburgh. The wife had a job with an insurance company and at the Christmas party she arrived out a freezing cold Edinburgh night and said to the people who greeted her (average age mid fifties) that she was so cold she was going to go and “warm her fanny on the radiator” which was greeted with a shocked silence.:p
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