See, I am gonna be living in a more rural area. The very first time I met my husband's good friend's wife, I said "aluminum" and you would have thought I had done a hour long comedy set. She thought it was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. And then she told me it was "alu-MIN-ium" and I was like ooooookay. I never knew that it was aluminium in the UK. But I also feel like she didn't know we say "a-LOO-min-um" in America. Needless to say, I just call it all "foil" now.
Lord help us all if she hears me say bay-sil.
I always tell them that American English is closer to what British English was back in the "old days" compared to modern-day British English. That usually shuts them up.
"The earliest American linguistic landscape was strongly influenced by dialects of the sort that even today are not highly esteemed by those with money. But they were still British, at first.
The accent has changed more in British English than in much of American
Then British English started changing in ways American didn’t. The ‘proper’ English of the early 1600s would sound to us like a cross between the English spoken in Cornwall and Dallas; the accent has changed more in British English than in much of American. Even at the time of the American Revolution, educated speech in England fully pronounced “r” in all places, and King George III probably said after, ask, dance, glass, and path the same as George Washington did: with the same a as in hat and fat. The ‘ah’ pronunciation was considered low-class in England until after the Revolution."
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