Do Americans speak English?

Question

I am from US and want to know wether or not ya'll consider American English the same as English English?

Answer 1

Of course it is not! That`s why it`s called American English.
It`s different even from Canadian English (there are about 4000 Canadianisms and word usages that differ). A few Americanisms are even the exact opposite of how the words are used elsewhere in the English speaking world - for example "to table" in the political sense means to remove from consideration or debate in American English while it means to formally propose for consideration and debate everywhere else English is spoken.

I, an American, used to do a lot of foreign travel and I always made it a habit, when introduced to someone who learned English as a foreign language, whether he or she was taught
British or American, so I could speak in the idiom he or she had learned and avoid confusion.

Answer 2

First of all your spelling of whether is wrong...you wrote wether? does that answer a little bit of your question? I grew up in India and spoke like the British and British English all the way! Yes! the American English is very different than the British English. To me even the way Americans write is very different than the English. I live here now and find it shocking how the English I grew up learning (which is the right English) is tainted now and Americans use anything and everything to express themselves and call it English. it's very shocking! I have lived here for 23 yrs and I still use the British English I know...I hope..at least I try to...

I have been told that I speak very proper english by a lot of americans.

Answer 3

While most of the words that we use are the same, there are several words that are different. We can often make these words out -- for example, if someone from the UK says "I'll put some petrol in the auto then take the lift to my flat" I know that he is getting gas for his car and will take the elevator to his apartment.

It was George Bernard Shaw who said that England and the United States were two countries separated by a common language.

I have to admit that I see similar differences between the language of the North and the language of the South. I would never use "y'all."

Answer 4

You speak a rather old-fashioned form of English which is kinda time-warped to us on the eastern side of The Big Pond. The English spoken in the British Isles and [Yes! That includes] Ireland is more dynamic and is rapidly moving away from American

Answer 5

I am an American in England, and the language difference is PROFOUND!! for a start there are lots of different words for things FAUCET/ TAP TRUNK/ BOOT HOOD/ BONNET DIAPER/ NAPPY PACIFIER/ DUMMY STROLLER/ PRAM OR PUSHCHAIR, and second there are language variations like in hopw things are pronounced. Sometimes I feel like I am speaking a comletely different language.
So no American do not speak english we speak american. I'll leave the english words to the English people.

Answer 6

If you mean do the British from the UK speak the same English as we do in the USA,I would say there are quite a bit of differences. Our language has been influenced in a great part by all of the differant nationalities which have immigrated to the USA.
One example is where we say (the hood of a car) the British say the (bonnet): We say (elevator) they say (lift).

Answer 7

Yes it's basically the same just with extra allonoids and a few alterations. Rather like the varients of English that exist within England. I live in Devon and to a born and bread Devonshireman expressions like meluvver (my lover) are just a way of saying 'you', but thats quite a personal expression elsewhere in the country. and with cultures constantly mixing and evolving both varients are starting to influence the other and have meaning on both sides of the Atlantic.

Answer 8

Nope. I think American English is not the same as British English.
Just like China Mandarin and Singapore Mandarin for example.

Answer 9

No, not really! In my opinion, the two languages are fast approaching the fork in the road! It's time for your version to be re-named American, or American English. It's normal for the language spoken in ENGland to be considered ENGlish - so as you lot live in America it's YOUR version of the language that should get a new name..!!
; )

Answer 10

That's an understatement... Americans (most) do speak English, not so much ENGLISH ENGLISH, People from England speak with a little accent, and they enunciate. And use close words as our, but a little different, where as we say MOM they say MUM.