Adrian C wrote:
raden wrote:

But the yanks do pronounce "Route 66" correctly ;-)

They do, don't they? Why the hell is that?

On a slightly separate note I read somewhere recently that the
language/accent spoken by the Pilgrim Fathers (ie native Brits) was much
closer to what the Americans speak nowadays than to modern-day British
English. I don't know whether that's true, or more to the point, who
smuggled a tape recorder aboard the Mayflower...

David