What is the language "British"?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 28 August 2006 20:29, Michael P. Brininstool wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 19:01, Robin Laing wrote:
> > Geordie dialect (Newcastle area) is believed to have the most authentic
> > with better than 80% historically correct :-)
>
> Interesting!  I took a class in history where the instructor was talking
> about the evolution of languages and pronunciations, and he said the
> closest dialect to the British of the 17th century is  the dialect of
> American English currently spoken in the countryside around Atlanta,
> Georgia.
>
Certainly I have read that many of the Americanised spellings that we tend to 
dislike were in fact common here at that time.  That's not the same as 
dialect, though, not that I know anything about the dialect of Atlanta, 
Georgia.

Anne
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