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Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

By missing out half the letters in "doughnut", lazily missing off letters in "colour" and doing something inexcusably inhumane with countless other words, I hardly think that Americans have the right to claim that they are doing everything properly.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

"Both spellings are many centuries old. Color, now regarded as the American spelling, in fact predates the United States by several centuries. In early use the spellings vied for ascendancy with several other spellings. Colur, culoure, and coolor, for instance, were all in the mix before the modern British spelling gained permanent prevalence in the 17th century"So, that quote gave us a little bit of information, but it didn't tell us where the terms actually came from. So I looked it up! Color and colour are obviously variations of each other, but they both have their origin in Latin, as does a lot of the English language. So what is the Latin word for color/colour? It's color. Which obviously means that our spelling of the word is older.As for "doughnut", the term was actually introduced by Washington Irving, an American. About 100 years later, "donut" was introduced as an abbreviated version of the word to help foreigners understand. The word really became popular with the arrival of Dunkin' Donuts. I'd also like to point out that the food was first introduced in America, so I don't know why you feel the need to correct our spelling anyways. Plus, both variations of the term are used over here, as is clear in the spelling of our biggest (other than Dunkin' Donuts) doughnut company's name... Actually, now that I think about it... I even spell it "doughnut".
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Most British people don't have cockney accents.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

I think the keyword in there was "also"... As in, the article also shed some light on the cockney accents... Not just the typical British accents.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Matt Soniak, the author of that article on Mental Floss (a source renowned for reliability) is definitely not biased in any way. Obviously. This is sarcasm if you having figured it out yet (American IQ is a lot lower on average - if you need me to explain what any of the words mean, just drop me a message).
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Bill Bryson, who has lived in England most of his life, has an English wife and kids and is a chancellor of Durham University, wrote a book on the subject. Matt Soniak, wasn't the first to reveal this information.If the article isn't reliable, then prove it wrong, rather than just saying it's wrong.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

What the heck? Why would not pronouncing letters become fancy? Stupid Brits. I hope that thing is accurate.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Actually, you are mixing up cockney people with British people in general. Most people are not cockneys so this is irrelevant. The only one displaying stupidity is you with your generalizations.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

I didn't mix anything, I just read an article. And, I made no generalizations, I just insulted you guys.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

The article isnt talking about the cockney accent and your getting Cockney confused with different London dialects, to be a Cockney you have to be born within the sound of bow bells thats it nothing to do with accent or how you pronounonce words. A lot of London dialects leave letters out and a lot of people have adopted rhyming slang, theres a lot of Mockneys out there
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Well even still most British people do not live in London so if some London dialects miss out letters that is irrelevant. The population of the UK is over 60 million and London only has 8 million people.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Have you read the article? It has nothing to do with London (I was just explaining to you the difference between Cockneys and other Londenders), it's to do with how the accent in Britain changed across Britain
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Probably for the same reason that White Middle Class Kids talk like black urban kids today "fashion" and the iodiocy of the people that follow it, you will note from the article that the same accent was adopted in parts of America as well making Americans equally as stupid as the Brits that adopted it
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Yeah, Boston and New York, no news there. And parts of the South? Everyone makes fun of them.No one thinks talking urban is fancy.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

The funny thing is that the South adopted non-rhotic speech, just like the Brits.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

I have no idea. I always thought it was strange how they said that they pronounce words right, when they say their R's like A's, but we pronounce our R's and our A's. What's the point in having an R if you're going to make it sound like an A?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

At least they pronounce herb correctly. It has an "h" in it.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Yeah... but don't they say, hub?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

No. Obviously not. The word is spelt "herb" - it is therefore pronounced "herb". Not "urb", as in American.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Yeah and hard isn't pronounced "hahd", birth isn't "buth", turn isn't "tuhn", other isn't "othuh"... basically, if there is an "R" in the middle or the end of a word, then you're going to drop it.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

They also pronounce aluminum as "ah-loo-minnie-um ". They added an extra "I".
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

"Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in –ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy."I think you'll find that it isn't that we add an extra "i", but that Americans tend to be lazy enough to miss out the 'i': "The spelling in –um continued in occasional use in Britain for a while, though that in –ium soon predominated. In the USA, the position was more complicated. Noah Webster’s Dictionary of 1828 has only aluminum, though the standard spelling among US chemists throughout most of the nineteenth century was aluminium; it was the preferred version in The Century Dictionary of 1889 and is the only spelling given in the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913. Searches in an archive of American newspapers show a most interesting shift. Up to the 1890s, both spellings appear in rough parity, though with the –ium version slightly the more common, but after about 1895 that reverses quite substantially, with the decade starting in 1900 having the –um spelling about twice as common as the alternative; in the following decade the –ium spelling crashes to a few hundred compared to half a million examples of –um."
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

"then changing it to aluminum"Apparently we just stuck with one of the initial spellings. Also, Canada spells it the same way, so it's not just an American thing.So we stuck with the older spelling of the word and stuck with the older accent. You guys apparently just like to be different.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

English came from England. .
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

But we maintained the accent.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

English has developed into many dialects. Define accent. .
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

The typical American accent, as in not Boston or NY.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

What is a typical American accent? We have Southern, Spanish, Latino, New York, Boston, and so on. And PA.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Rhotic. Most Americans pronounce their R's. "Hard" instead of "hahd". Boston and New York would be non-rhotic, as well as Britain. Read the article I posted on my argument up top.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

I had no idea. I don't like the way they spell. My apologies to Atrag, it is just my opinion. I love their accents though.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Don't worry about Atrag. He's a lost Spaniard.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

LOL. ;)
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Ya potato!
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

LOOK AT ME BOLLOCKS GOVNA !
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Really ? I though it was brought to that Island by Germany .
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

I highly doubt that people in the 1600's in Britain spoke with what is now a New York Texas or New Jersey accent.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

That's the problem with Brits. They think every American sounds like they are from Texas and New York. We have fifty states! The majority of the US doesn't sound like that.New York and the New England area adopted non-rhotic speech, just as you guys did in the early 19th century. The rest of the country, minus a few other states, maintained proper English, which is rhotic speech. Dude, read the article!
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

You're correct, the spoke with an accent similar to that of someone from Boston or Northern New England.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

This debate is complete bullshit. Obviously English people have the most English accent. The bizarre theory that the modern accent has evolved the most is a load of rubbish: if our language and spelling has changed less (become less of an abomination) then why wouldn't our accent? There are variations of accents and dialects across all of Britain. To an English person American accents sound pretty much all the same, but no American person would be able to make the mistake the difference between the accent of the English 'bourgeoisie' and a Liverpudlian accent
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Agreed. It is good to see another patriotic Brit here. I was beginning to feel like a lonely standard bearer in defending us against the Americans around here.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Dude you confuse patriotism with excessive nationalism, I'm patriotic I buy British but I'm not stupid, I can see the good in other countries and their cultures, I can see that there is more to American culture than obese McDonalds munching morons that believe everything that is printed in the National Enquirer and that there is more to Asia than Communism and Islam. Maybe if you opened your eyes and mind to the world you would see too that yes Britain is Great but the World has just as much to offer and and isn't the scary place full of terrorist's and potential immigrants that UKIP and the Daily Mail would have you believe.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Excuse me? Of course I do not read the tabloid rag that is the daily mail. I do not receive news from the likes of ignoramuses that they have has writers such as Liz Jones and Samantha Brick. I some times use links to the mail online to back up my arguments but that is only when I can't be bothered to find another source. I never said that there is nothing more to Asia than Communism and Islam I just said there is too much of both there. UKIP may be far from perfect but they are the most trustworthy out of any large party in the UK and they are far better than Labour, the Conservatives and Lib Dems who have down bugger all that has helped the country in recent years.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Unfortunately if you use links to the Mail it will make people think you read it, maybe you did not mean to say it that way but the way it was worded your argument did come across as there's nothing to Asia except for Yellow shirted Communists and Islam. UKIP are are a long way from perfect interesting way of wording it, since the BNP have started to disolve their members have found a new home and been welcomed by UKIP, their members are openly racist in conversation and you think their more trustworthy and better for the country? That's the way Hitler got to power and look at how that ended
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Their is a difference between yellow shirts and communists. The yellow shirts/People's alliance for Democracy are an aggressive group of protesters in Thailand that are wreaking havoc in Bangkok at the moment. UKIP in general is not necessarily racist it just has racists in it and they are not like the Nazis at all. I would pick Nigel Farage over the Etonian pig that is David Cameron any day. UKIP is right, we are ruled by Brussels not Westminster.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

That UKIP excuse is the same lie used by the BNP and the National Front before them "we're not racist but some of our members are", if their not racist why do they do nothing to separate themselves from the racist members of their party, why are they allowing members of the BNP to jump ship and join them? UKIP started as a independent party that was anti Britain being part Europe they have slowly been drifting to the right as the far right partys fell apart more extremists have joined UKIP and their drift to the right has sped up, to the point where they are now seen as a watered down version of the BNP/National Front give it a little more time and they will be the new far right party in the UK. What happens when the extremists outnumber the rest in the party and Farage steps down? The party members vote a new leader in most likely one with extreme right wing views and if their in power then the UK has a far right government and Europe will see the rise of Fascism again
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Do you agree with him because neither of you read the article? He doesn't have the faintest clue of what he is talking about. Just another example of British arrogance.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

What is the article? The debate information was left completely blank. I suppose you must mean that you've read it - so I obviously must have done? Just another example of American arrogance
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

The article that I posted, which you apparently read since you made a comment about it in another argument.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Dude, you don't even know. Axmeister is like the most nationalistic guy here (though he doesn't get on often, anymore). But he has started to tone it down, which is nice.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Axmeister hasn't posted in ages, that is why I said I am feeling like a lonely standard bearer. I never thought I would say this but I actually miss the bugger being on here.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Axmeister and I used to be quite the pair, but recently I haven't had a lot of time to come on here
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Wouldn't a Patriotic Brit be Church of England?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Bullshit, you can still be proud of your country and not religious. The Church of England has long been in decline anyway. Only 37% of the UK even believe that there is a God.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Buddhism is a religion.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

No it is not. It is a philosophy and way of life not a religion. Religion is the worship of Gods, Buddhism has no God in it and only some devotional sects of Buddhism involve in worship of anything.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Religion is not the worship of gods... Oh, please don't make me explain this again. I took religion in college, it's my favorite subject, Buddhism is absolutely a religion.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

May I ask why something so evil is your favourite subject? And whether Buddhism is a religion or not is irrelevant to 12characters saying a patriotic Brit would have to be Church of England. Anglicans don't even make up 40% of the population any more.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

May I ask why something so evil is your favourite subject?You do realize that "evil" used to be spelled "evel", which is Eve with an "L", right? Good is "God" with an extra "O", so the terms you are using most likely have Christian roots.To non-believers, evil is a subjective term, so what you consider to be bad, others may not.It doesn't matter if bad things have occurred due to religion, I still find it interesting. It's historical, it's mysterious and it's full of symbolism. Western society is built around Christianity, whether you except it or not. Learn about Christianity and you'll learn a lot about the world.And whether Buddhism is a religion or not is irrelevant to 12characters saying a patriotic Brit would have to be Church of England.That sentence doesn't make any sense.Anglicans don't even make up 40% of the population any more.Uhh... So? Not all Christians are Anglican.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

That sentence doesn't make any sense. How? What part of it don't you understand. I was saying how 12characters told me that I would have to be Church of England to be a patriotic Brit which is absolute horse shit.Uhh... So? Not all Christians are Anglican. That's not the point though is it. 12characters said I woukd have to be Church of England not just any type of Christian. Furthermore the percentage of all Christians is also well below 40%.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

How? What part of it don't you understand. I was saying how 12characters told me that I would have to be Church of England to be a patriotic Brit which is absolute horse shit.A building can't be a Brit.That's not the point though is it. 12characters said I woukd have to be Church of England not just any type of Christian.Dude, I don't give a shit. I was disputing your argument that Buddhism is not a religion. What does the church of England have to do with that?Furthermore the percentage of all Christians is also well below 40%.Well, the United Kingdom is about 59% Christian.As for the world, 32% may seem low, but it is still the largest global religion percentage.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

A building can't be a Brit.You clearly don't know what the Church of England actually is. It is not a building it is a type of Protestantism aka Anglicanism.Dude, I don't give a shit. I was disputing your argument that Buddhism is not a religion. What does the church of England have to do with that?Fair enough then "Dude".The United Kingdom is about 59% Christian.Only 37% of people in Britain believe in God. The only reason why Christianity is 59% is because non-religious people just tick that box to make things simpler.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

You clearly don't know what the Church of England actually is. It is not a building it is a type of Protestantism aka Anglicanism."The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion."It seems more like an organization, than a religious sect.Anyways, a sect isn't a Brit either.Fair enough then "Dude".Do you have a problem with that word?Only 37% of people in Britain believe in God. The only reason why Christianity is 59% is because non-religious people just tick that box to make things simpler.Wouldn't it be just as simple to tick "none"?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

As an american I disagree. The only two types of English accents I can differentiate are what I consider the typically British 'posh' accent, and the less refined Australian accent. Also as an American I can notice a very different sound coming from my mouth, born in the north, and the mouths of people born in the south.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

I don't even know where to begin. People like you should be lined up and shot. "The only two types of English accents I can differentiate are what I consider the typically British 'posh' accent, and the less refined Australian accent"Well the clue for this one is in the name: "Australian" - Australia is a country on the other side of the world from England, and whilst they are a part of the commonwealth, they are a distinctly different country; saying that you can distinguish between the English accent and the Australian accent is no different from saying that you can differentiate between the American accent and Chinese.The only American accents I can distinguish are those from "TEXAS!" and those from "'MERICA!"
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

What is your argument exactly. If I read your first one correctly, you were stating that all American accents sound the same to everyone, and all British accents sound unique to everyone. I proved that wrong, so i ask again. What is your point?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

saying that you can distinguish between the English accent and the Australian accent is no different from saying that you can differentiate between the American accent and Chinese.Besides the fact that Americans don't speak Chinese...
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Lel wut? No contest.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

All that says is we can't know which by historical evidence.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

You didn't read it, did you?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Not really, no. :3
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Well, there ya go!
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

*There you go. Please speak with the correct accent for the debate. ;)
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Thah ya go!Is that what you were looking for?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

You are picking on specific regions of Britain.
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: USA

Dah you goh! How many more regions do I have left?
Debate: Who has the more traditional English accent?
Side: Britain

Do you realize that the spelling is the same in all regions of England, and that you are just misspelling it several times? He was initially correcting you on the fact that you said "ya" instead of "you" - perhaps you are just incapable of writing yet another word correctly?