I don't think either of them are "more correct". Anyone who gets self-righteous about it being "their language" is welcome to die in a fire.
Since the founding of America the language on both sides of the pond has changed so dramatically that I wouldn't be opposed to calling it a new language entirely. No, Americans are not speaking the same language the British made up all that time ago. Neither are modern Brits.
Even if you don't buy that it's a new language, at the very least it's a new dialect, again, on both sides of the pond. No one in the world is speaking the same English that was invented in Britain.
What do you think about British/American spelling differences?
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I don't think either of them are "more correct". Anyone who gets self-righteous about it being "their language" is welcome to die in a fire.
Since the founding of America the language on both sides of the pond has changed so dramatically that I wouldn't be opposed to calling it a new language entirely. No, Americans are not speaking the same language the British made up all that time ago. Neither are modern Brits.
Even if you don't buy that it's a new language, at the very least it's a new dialect, again, on both sides of the pond. No one in the world is speaking the same English that was invented in Britain.