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Murtz writes
Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:02:39 +0000, Huge wrote:

On 2014-04-28, Davey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:34:25 +0100 Nightjar
wrote:

On 28/04/2014 02:57, Johny B Good wrote:
...
That just seems to be due to the inevitable erosion of English by
way of the more usual American entertainment media route rather than
by that git in the RP department.
...

Many 'Americanisms' are, in fact, simply continuations of English that
we have stopped using. Fall of the leaf, shortened to fall, for
autumn, for example, or the past particle of get; gotten. The exchange
also goes the other way, with words and phrases like snog, cheeky and
spot on making their way into American English. Purists over there
similarly complain about the derogation of their language.

Colin Bignell

In all my years living there (30+), I only met folks who didn't
understand simple English words, such as 'fortnight' and 'twice'. And
as for 'thrice' I might as well have been speaking Martian.
I hated their pronunciation of 'schedule' as 'skedule', and
'submariner' as 'sub-mareener', as well as 'consorshium' for
'consortium'.
One of their worst exports is 'gonna', in my view. Pure laziness.

The ones that drive me crazy are the New England pronounciation of
"buoy"
as "boo-ey". And burglarise. Still, it's their language, let them
pronounce it how they like.

I still can't see how "solder" becomes "sodder" ...

Or golf,Goff.

Only certain extremely porsh people say 'goff'. Real goffers say 'golf'.
--
Ian