Originally Posted by AlG
Why should they try to change their language. After all, they're the ones that came over here and brought the language with them. We're the ones that bastardized it over the years and frankly, it's not the better for it.
interestingly enough watching some pre-WWII films the US accents seem (to my ears) to be virtually non-existant, from the 60s onwards however the difference is very pronounced... is it just me finds this - and if not it'd be interesting to see why the change