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aeka ([info]aeka) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
[info]boogara : "'Non-English-Speaking-English-Country' is a country where American English is not spoken (well). Britain for me isn't in this field 'cause all the times I've talked to a Brit, they didn't speak much/any British-English."

[info]wibbble: "I think you've got this backwards. America is the 'non-English-speaking-English-country' (if that phrase can have any meaning at all).

Or to put it another way: English, you're doing it wrong. "


[info]wibbble does have a point. English didn't come from America or it would have been called 'American'. Therefore British English is technically correct. Noah Webster simply tweaked it in the mid 18th Century as part of reforming the American education system from the British system.

I wonder if [info]boogara even knows who Noah Webster is. S/He would probably be a little less ignorant if s/he did.


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