British accent

[Orby]

What about grammar? I'm curious about how you feel when you read something that's been written using British grammar, such as "honour" instead of "honor" and using words that you barely use in the States. Does it sound weird for you?

I just want to know why you Americans hate the letter 'u' so much

British: Honour
American: Honor

British: Colour
American: Color

British: Favourite
American Favorite

British Behaviour
American: Behavior

British: Humour
American: Humor

British: Labour
American: Labor

British: Neighbour
American: Neighbor

British: Flavour
American Flavor

Why do you hate the U? My OCD gets so triggered when I see these American spellings... I will let it pass for your 'organize' over 'organise' but I pity the U #FreeU :P

[Forgettable]

Pretty annoying to be honest. Doesn't sound good and more difficult to understand.

[Pony Soldier]

Personally I think it's cool. The kind of accent Sean Bean has is probably my favorite. Kit Harrington's is another cool one. I think it's the same as Sean Bean's. I sometimes wish I had that kind of accent.

[Collegeguy]

Hate the British accents that don't sound like english any more.

[Nork]

I just want to know why you Americans hate the letter 'u' so much

British: Honour
American: Honor

British: Colour
American: Color

British: Favourite
American Favorite

British Behaviour
American: Behavior

British: Humour
American: Humor

British: Labour
American: Labor

British: Neighbour
American: Neighbor

British: Flavour
American Flavor

Why do you hate the U? My OCD gets so triggered when I see these American spellings... I will let it pass for your 'organize' over 'organise' but I pity the U #FreeU :P

They started to write like that to make speaking and writting more similar. You don't pronounce those "U" so why should you write them? To be fair, it's easier for non native speakers to type them that way.

[Puupi]

They started to write like that to make speaking and writting more similar. You don't pronounce those "U" so why should you write them? To be fair, it's easier for non native speakers to type them that way.

.....and yet eg. silent H exists.

"Hey lets remove u from honour because you don't pronounce it!"
"What about the H?"
"H can stay....for reasons."

[derpkitteh]

What about grammar? I'm curious about how you feel when you read something that's been written using British grammar, such as "honour" instead of "honor" and using words that you barely use in the States. Does it sound weird for you?

i actually use the british spelling of grey.

i mean, i only do that because of the porn star sasha grey. but yeah.

i do hate the superfluous U's though.

[goatman]

Yes English people speak English too fast, it is not that single-digit IQ American rednecks are too inbred and poorly educated to keep up....

Is that why the Brits love using American phrases?. Then again you are their 51st state, aka a bitch.

[Khaza-R]

I just want to know why you Americans hate the letter 'u' so much

British: Honour
American: Honor

British: Colour
American: Color

British: Favourite
American Favorite

British Behaviour
American: Behavior

British: Humour
American: Humor

British: Labour
American: Labor

British: Neighbour
American: Neighbor

British: Flavour
American Flavor

Why do you hate the U? My OCD gets so triggered when I see these American spellings... I will let it pass for your 'organize' over 'organise' but I pity the U #FreeU :P

The letter R would like to have a word with you

[Zelk]

They started to write like that to make speaking and writting more similar. You don't pronounce those "U" so why should you write them? To be fair, it's easier for non native speakers to type them that way.

you absolutely do prounounce the u though? It's the o that's redundant if anything

anyway here's a clip of my accent for you all to hear

[Katchii]

I just want to know why you Americans hate the letter 'u' so much

British: Honour
American: Honor

British: Colour
American: Color

British: Favourite
American Favorite

British Behaviour
American: Behavior

British: Humour
American: Humor

British: Labour
American: Labor

British: Neighbour
American: Neighbor

British: Flavour
American Flavor

Why do you hate the U? My OCD gets so triggered when I see these American spellings... I will let it pass for your 'organize' over 'organise' but I pity the U #FreeU :P

I've never understood the need for it to be there, or why the U was there in the first place if the word isn't even typically pronounced as if it were there. Maybe in some it sounds like a U, in which case the O doesn't need to be there. But, none of those words enunciate like the word "our."

[Mihalik]

As someone who spent years in the UK, and even today works with and lives around Brits... I don't much give a damn, occasionally it's irritating, but under no circumstance sexy, the only people who find English accents sexy are people who haven't really spent much time around people with an English accent. That's about it.

Irish/Scottish accents on the other hand are much easier on the ear.

The only English language accents that I find attractive in women are Irish, Australian and US Southern.

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I've never understood the need for it to be there, or why the U was there in the first place if the word isn't even typically pronounced as if it were there. Maybe in some it sounds like a U, in which case the O doesn't need to be there. But, none of those words enunciate like the word "our."

Those words are essentially all derived from French. Try to spell them with a French accent and you'll see why the U is there. Except "neighbour" which is derived from Old English, but the root word "gebür" which is basically spelled like "boor" so it's sounds like the "ou" spelling once the "ou" is twisted into English, so the word probably got regularized into that form because it sounds alike.

(I was an English teacher for a time back in the day.)

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What about grammar? I'm curious about how you feel when you read something that's been written using British grammar, such as "honour" instead of "honor" and using words that you barely use in the States. Does it sound weird for you?

Spelling is spelling and it's what it is. It takes like 20 minutes or less to have a full and accurate grasp of the spelling differences, after which you can easily switch between them.

On the other hand, I do think British English unnecessarily overuses the Past and Present Perfect in cases when the Simple is more expedient and actually more accurate.

[Wyrt]

I find it amusing when they pronounce words like "lava" as "laver." They seem to like adding r's onto the end of words that end in a.

[TJ]

I think the majority of Americans don't know that there's many variants of a "British" accent, they all seem to think we speak in this extreme posh dialect that you see from maybe Victorian times? When, in fact, I don't think I've ever heard anyone speak like that. It's like saying the American accent is talking like a hillbilly.

Would be funny to see these people go to London, can honestly say they would be completely shocked with the amount of swearing, abuse, and general impoliteness they would experience, and also the general cockney slang/accent.

[Nork]

On the other hand, I do think British English unnecessarily overuses the Past and Present Perfect in cases when the Simple is more expedient and actually more accurate.

I don't see that as a problem, quite the opposite. I find American English too simple sometimes.

[Monster Hunter]

Personally I think it's cool. The kind of accent Sean Bean has is probably my favorite. Kit Harrington's is another cool one. I think it's the same as Sean Bean's. I sometimes wish I had that kind of accent.

That's the Yorkshire accent. Kit's accent is naturally London but he puts on a northern accent in game of thrones to fit the region its based on. But that korthern accent isn't particular to any one area and tends to drift from Yorkshire to east Lancashire and the odd bit of mancunian now and then.

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On the other hand, I do think British English unnecessarily overuses the Past and Present Perfect in cases when the Simple is more expedient and actually more accurate.

Can you explain that? I didn't pay much attention in English class.

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Personally I think it's cool. The kind of accent Sean Bean has is probably my favorite. Kit Harrington's is another cool one. I think it's the same as Sean Bean's. I sometimes wish I had that kind of accent.

These guys are from right near me.

[Aeula]

There are so many British accents, which one do you mean?

We've got dozens of the buggers.

[Mihalik]

Can you explain that? I didn't pay much attention in English class.

Present perfect, commonly used in the UK.

I have been working in education for years.

In the US you'd just use the past simple.

I worked in education for years.

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I don't see that as a problem, quite the opposite. I find American English too simple sometimes.

American English is neither grammatically or lexically simpler than British English. It just uses tenses more precisely and has better word economy on expressing tenses.

Which oddly enough allows you to modulate formality levels more, drawing a clearer distinction between informal and formal speech.

It's not that perfect tense is not used in American English, it's just used more precisely.

[Zelk]

Present perfect, commonly used in the UK.

I have been working in education for years.

In the US you'd just use the past simple.

I worked in education for years.

These two sentences do not mean the same thing

[Mihalik]

These two sentences do not mean the same thing

That's why both tenses exist. Nevertheless.

Scroll down to the Tense differences part.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/diction...erican-english