Do Americans speak English better than the English people (from England, of course)?

Answer 1

Not all Americans speak English the same and not all people from England speak English the same. In the US, there is a large difference between the accent people have in the Southern states like Texas and Alabama versus the Northern states like Maine and Vermont. I'm not as familiar with English accents, but there is cockney. The case is the same in Canada. In terms of who speaks English better? That's a very subjective question! What one person finds easier to understand is going to be different from another person. I think it has a lot to do with what you're used to. English is not like other languages like French either, which has the Alliance Francaise that has to ratify new words and dictate their proper spelling for them to officially come into existence. Without these kinds of barriers, English is continuously evolving and has the largest vocabulary of any other language in the world.
Inevitably English is going to have variations in accents and vocabularies in different parts of the world. We could never say that English was spoken better in the US or England, Canada or Australia, without taking into consideration all of the different accents within these large countries. In the end, it is all subjective - there is no objective tool in English to gauge which accent is more "correct". They're all correct and proper in their own regions.

Answer 2

Region, social status, educational background, age, and occupation are some variables that can make a difference of how people might speak English, whether in England or the U.S. of A. It is very subjective to compare a native language as better spoken in different countries. The same question has been posed by Spanish-speakers between the language spoken in Spain (of course) and its ex-colonies in the New World. An illiterate person will have less skills in speech than a high school or university graduate anywhere in the world.
If better is "how" the language sounds to either side, then there is no "speaking better" because, in this case, it's a matter of phonetics and/or intonation. As an example, would you consider New Yorkers to speak better English than Texans, or vice versa, just because they sound differently? All this preamble to say: NO THEY DON'T!

Answer 3

Americans speak a different type of English than the British. The type that Americans use is a simplified form of the language. This doesn't mean that Americans are dumber or anything, we just wanted to set ourselves apart from the British after the American Revolution. After we had won, there was a great fervor to set ourselves apart from England, and I believe Merriam Webster was one of the leaders of this movement, and created a distinctly American Dictionary as an example. That's how come we speak English a little differently than the British

Answer 4

Ah yes, the old joke, two peoples separated by a common language.

When I was stationed overseas, the locals would learn American English, as apposed to English.

I personally find it disturbing that the English language has well over 600 thousand words, and yet the average speaker has a command of less than 2 thousand. Alas, the age of rhetoric is mort.

Answer 5

They are different dialects of English, even to the point American English has its own spelling and grammar.

As an example Americans use the adjective form for the adverb
"He ran quick" rather than "He ran quickly"

This can be regarded either as poor English or as a dialectal difference as languages are not fixed and static but living.

My dialect is probably closer to British than US, but I find it easier to understand a man from New York than Newcastle

Answer 6

We speak American English..

Answer 7

American English and its slang are better known in the
world because of movies and records but classical
English as written by MiLTON AND SHAKESPEARE and
lectured in Oxford or Cambridge are the cultural treasure
of the U. K

Answer 8

Americans do not appear to speak any form of English that, as an Englishman I recognise. They do of course speak better American.

Answer 9

Nahh.

The Brit's speak the Queen's English better than the American's do (hopefully just not as snotty as the Queen does it).

American's speak the "Americanized" version of English better than the Brit's do. No matter how much John Wayne has invaded their vernacular!

Answer 10

Americans ( I assume that you mean people from the USA ) don't speak English, they speak a dialect, and not very well either