Re: [Lingo] British English

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

On 02/06/2011 05:01 PM, Kenneth Burling wrote:
> > British English? What's that? THERE'S NO SUCH THING!
>
>
> I think that the main issue is that most American's assume that
> Britain is England, and nothing more.  When we are saying british
> English, we are thinking English as it is spoken in England.

Well, there _is_ Queen's English, but I think you have to be dressed in 
a leather teddy, fishnet stockings, spike heels, and have a full beard 
to speak it like he does.

> Now... For London... I have heard a Londener talk, and they don't
> speak what one would consider either American nor British English. :P

You want unintelligible?  Spend a week in Newcastle or Yeovil, then ... 
or Glasgow, come to think of it.

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CL