North America is 1000s of miles away from the origin of the language, so expecting them to maintain every aspect of English over 100s of years is unreasonable.
Languages develop and evolve naturally, and diverge over time from their roots. We might wrinkle our noses up because we find certain spelling or grammatical differences weird to us, but that's not a reason to say one is right and the other is wrong.
The only thing I get annoyed with is when I'm corrected by an American when I've spelt (not spelled) a word the standard British way. We should all accept our linguistic differences, and if we think something is incorrect, make sure we have evidence more than just "That's not how I would write it!"
Canadians keep up the British English, I personally think that if Americans are going to say they speak English they should use it how it was originally spoken, and I think at should go for other languages aswell.
What do you think about British/American spelling differences?
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North America is 1000s of miles away from the origin of the language, so expecting them to maintain every aspect of English over 100s of years is unreasonable.
Languages develop and evolve naturally, and diverge over time from their roots. We might wrinkle our noses up because we find certain spelling or grammatical differences weird to us, but that's not a reason to say one is right and the other is wrong.
The only thing I get annoyed with is when I'm corrected by an American when I've spelt (not spelled) a word the standard British way. We should all accept our linguistic differences, and if we think something is incorrect, make sure we have evidence more than just "That's not how I would write it!"
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Canadians keep up the British English, I personally think that if Americans are going to say they speak English they should use it how it was originally spoken, and I think at should go for other languages aswell.