On the other foot, more and more Bostonians are slowly pronouncing their Rs and instead of “Paking the Cah at Hahvad Yahd”, more are actually “Parking” it for real at Harvard. So all and all, the US is more homogeneous but with some regional differences.

With 300 million persons, it’s easy for an American to forget one’s heritage and I believe, that’s kinda what the American system wants to build a united country. For example, is it beneficial for a Turkish majority township and an Armenian neighborhood to be constantly bickering over the world war I holocaust, thousands of miles and a century removed from the event via the great grandchildren? Perhaps not, the US govt would want those descendants to intermarry, forget about the Caucasus, and fight together against Communism (or whatever) for Uncle Sam.

So I think many international people, who already have money, don’t want their kids to become Americans so they try to send them to prep schools abroad to stop the homogenization and live in diasporas.

Wahooooo
(p.s. yes, i’m very weird)

For example, notice how the British say “report”. It sounds more like “repolt”. Where’s your freaking “R” sound at you damn limey?!

I don’t have a problem with our British cousins across the waters (we’re all the same) but they have this attitude like they made America or something and that we changed all this stuff. For exmaple, they say something about us calling soccer, soccer. Instead of calling it football. They’re the ones that gave it the name soccer and now they bitch at us for calling it that instead of football! Yeah we changed a few words up like favor instead of favour. What use does that “u” really have anyway?

- Brandon

“Excuse me? How do you get a th sound from a z ”

This I am not sure about, you will have to ask the nation of Spain, you ignorant bint.
The author of this article makes a valiant attempt at trying not to sound biased and sour, before breaking and writing this little gem- “Look at their faces in the picture above and tell me WHO ARE THE DULL ONES! Pluuuueeezzzeeee.”
Oh no. The future King and Queen of England don’t like reggae. I hope they’re not reading this, and hearing you judge them, because then they wouldn’t be able to reign for worrying.

“but I can tell a difference between a Georgia, Tennessean, Carolinian, Alabamian, etc. accent. They are very different.”
Congratulations. How is this relevant? I can tell ‘a’ difference between a vacuous moron and someone with something wothwhile to say. You are the former. Stop clogging up my broadband with your xenophobic idiocy, learn to write, and remove that pretentious latin absurdity from the top of this page. Boring, ill-written ‘blogs’ don’t get inspiring mottos.

I’m sorry, but I didn’t understand a word you just wrote … can you speak more clearly??? (just kidding!! lol)

Boston????!!!??? You like Boston accents better than others??? OMG. This whole situation is worse than I thought. How can that be??

I was born, raised and have spent most of my life in the American South. We were taught in school that our accents were actually closer to the proper English accent than others in our country. I suspected they might just be telling us that since the rest of the country likes to feel superior to us and to make us feel better about it all. However, I have since thought that it does make sense - the English, Scottish and Irish came down here and the Germans stayed up North (more or less) - so maybe we do speak more properly. That’s a stretch isn’t it?? lol

BTW - you might have given us the language - but we perfected it! (ewg).

And to beth’s remark of how we (English people) don’t even speak proper…

WTF?!? We gave you the damn language and I agree with a quote from a very comical book:

“Then they took our language and started messing with it and look where that’s got them.”

And in relation to the article, yes, many English do not like American accents. Most make me want to slam my head into a wall. Though some are more widely accepted than others. The Boston accent, for example.

And, no, not everyone was born with that sucked-on-a-lemon face that Prince Charles and his hag bride Camilla are so fond of. No one in England even like them, many blame them for the Diana fiasco.

/rant but please get your facts straight before you jump into something and shove your foot in it. That’s what collectively gives America a bad name (jk, but I went there :])

Word has it that al Qaida has its grimy eyes set on Europe as a target for its terrorist activities. This may be just speculation, or it may be real. Would you like to be the one in charge that has to make decision? What would you do? ……

Now, that said, the normal English, which I consider the ones who do not live in London and are not a Royal or otherwise famous, are more like the ordinary folks here in the U.S. The Welsh are great. Absolutely wonderfully nice people in Wales, who, I might add, never gave up their native language. They all speak English, but they all speak Welsh too.