Which has a better pronounciation of English language, Brits or Americans?

Question

pronunciation...i mean

Answer 1

English was invented by the Brits' ancestors. Though, some parts of england have such deep accents they are barely recognizable. Yet, they remain, the authority on english, their own language!

HTH

Answer 2

Obviously the Brits because the Americans speak a completely different language! Of course, most Brits are hopeless on the pronunciation side as well!

Answer 3

Americans

Answer 4

I am sure some British people have better pronunciation than some Americans and that some Americans have better pronunciation than some Britis. It is very subjective. If you are from a certain region and you go somewhere else you may not understand the way people pronounce things but to themn its right. I do not think that you can say certain people pronounce English better than others (assuming English is their first language).

Answer 5

Beyond a doubt.. the Brits have a better command of the English language as well as a better pronounciation

Answer 6

You have at the minimum two different styles of speaking what is essentially the same written language. Neither is better than the other, although Americans often feel that the British style is more pleasing to the ear. I'm not aware that the opposite is felt by the British to any extent.

But the correctness of pronunciation has little or less to do with the different styles than the way the speakers of each style feel about the way their fellow speakers have rendered it.

Answer 7

Both have a number of dialects...some similar to each other, for example, deep souththern US accent sounds a lot like some English ones. I think it's a draw. I think the best pronunciation of English language has more to do with the education level and training of the speaker, not so much country of origin.

Answer 8

the British do! the Americans take the words and depending on what state you are from like I am form Texas I sound as though I am a redneck or a cowgirl! the Americans take letters, vowels, consonants out-you name it and they change the whole way a word should be pronounced!they say words in a hurry therefore making them sound like nothing!maybe it is the American way to not articulate certain vowels in a word or to say a phrase way to fast therefore not pronouncing the words to the fullest! in my opinion the British will always have a better sense of pronunciation since what we are talking is not the real language but the British language is where you articulate and pause and let the other person know where a new sentence begins and you do not rush ythings but take them slower and say them better and with a more aritocrastic pronunciation as well as talking and everything!

Answer 9

I'm diong my comparison based of watching television. The 'american- television' english is better. They pronounce better and clearer as compared to 'british-television' english. Most people would have trouble understanding the slangs, British people use as they got some "air" with the way they speak and pronounce things. Only a certain class of educated or exposed people could pick up with what they say. However, I find that American english is the best way to pick up proper pronounciations or annunciations.

Answer 10

I don't think there's an easy answer. I lived in the States for many years and failed to lose my British accent (which seemed to delight American women who said "I just LOVE your accent - it's cute" - almost good enough to start chatting them up and even bedding them...while American men thought I was being pompous - I come from the South).

We have to remember that like all other aspects of language, pronunciation changes. (On both sides of the pond!!)

Whatever English-speaking country you're in, the regional form is considered the "best". One of my students is a Ghanaian, who (apparently) speaks English perfectly, but I often can't understand him - only after three or four attempts can I pick up what he's saying). Australians have their own variants, too. Americans laugh at Canadians when they speak, but then Noo Yawkers laugh at Virginians, don't they?
What about Ethnic English, then?

If you're in Britain, the British ways of speaking are more readily accepted. American companies advertising products in the UK often employ British speakers to dub their ads, rather than use the American originals.

As one of your respondents says, there are many varieties of British English (just as there are of American English in the USA), each accepted and indeed preferred in that area. Newsreaders in both the USA and the UK are more regional than ever (a tendency which began in the UK in the 60s, when "Northerners" became popular in many fields of entertainment - Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Kenneth Tynan, Alan Bennett, and the "posh" Received Pronunciation was beginning to decline), although our Cockney English is still not acceptable (at least by broadcasting companies) for serious programmes (news, etc..)

Some varieties of American English preserve regional features of old British English of 200 years ago.

A quick question for you: why do American women sound so harsh, shrill,raucous even? (Showing off? Or brought up that way?)
Why are black people so LOUD (when they see each other, especially when they laugh) Showing off again? Raising awareness?

Smashing! Jolly good! Toodlepip! (me being facetious.. fear not!)

Answer 11

Brits because its the way the English language is meant to be spoken. American English is full of short cuts such as the word route. English pronounce it "root" where as americans have taken the shortcut rowt. They see the "ou" and figure it must be like the word about.

Plus they have the accent which is an added bonus