Do Americans speak better English than the English!!?

Question

I was listening to some English audio programming, and they're a bunch of damn mushmouths! lol For example, they say the name "Carter" as "Kah-tuh." Often I can't even understand them! Perhaps they need to relearn ENGLISH!! LOL

Answer 1

well, neither country actually speak "Anglish" -- which is what the language started out as: The germanic language of the Angles, which settled southern England, and are the basis of all our modern "english" speech.

Have you ever read Chaucer's "The canterbury Tales"? It was required reading in High School here, and it is written in what is called "Middle English", as opposed to "Old English" or "Anglish". That language in the story is vastly different than anything you might recognize in the modern world.

Here is the first paragraph, followed by its translation:

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke
That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.


When in April the sweet showers fall
That pierce March's drought to the root and all
And bathed every vein in liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has with his sweet breath,
Filled again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and leaves, and the young sun
His half-course in the sign of the Ram has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)
Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in distant lands.
And specially from every shire's end
Of England they to Canterbury went,
The holy blessed martyr there to seek
Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak


Modern English, as well as Modern American English, are two entirely different languages that were borne from the diversities contained within their own lands and peoples. The US has a much more diverse language base to draw from, as people from every nation and ethnic group make up a portion of its society. Having these different ethnic diversities gives us different words that may mean the same things. However, the british do have their own versions of words and slang language that does not make a lot of sense to someone that is not from there.

Hope this helps...

Answer 2

individuals. American English is a lot closer to unique English than what's spoken in England immediately. till the early 1800's, British spoke in a dialect that used complicated r's and delicate t's. approximately 1820 or so, a fad began among nobility wherein they began employing delicate r's and sophisticated t's and lisping. this fad unfold to the decrease classes, and as a effect became born the daddy of present day English dialects and accents.

Answer 3

The English speak English and the Americans speak American. They're very different and American has assimilated everyone elses language into ours a little at a time.

Answer 4

Didn't Jimmy Carter say "Cah-tah"? or did he say "Karrrrr- terrrr"?

Both sound foreign to me!

Different strokes for different folks. Familiarity will allow you to understand different dialects. Don't knock it. You just are unfamiliar.

Answer 5

I am still learning english and I find Americans accent nicer than the british one! .... I love american english <3 .
love the way of pronouncing ... ever, eva / foh evaa / neva :D .

Answer 6

No, the English speak a form of english that is more pure. The only reason you have trouble understanding it is because your used to the dialect you grew up with.
Don't blame another country's dialect for your inability to comprehend real english.

Answer 7

it's not better or worse, it's just different. they have different accents than us. they might say the same things about the way you pronounce words.

Answer 8

Yes they do but Sith Ifricans spiek it bes :-)

Answer 9

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH !