"England and America-2 nation separated by a adjectives language"?
can you make a comment on this quote made by Oscar Wild?
Answers: English several hundred years ago be quite different from today - look at the writings of Shakespeare and Chaucer for examples. The poetry mutated over time and the mutations were not one and the same in America and Britain.
Mass medium and the Internet are homogenizing English across the world and the differences are much less today. Even variation in lingo like petrol/gasoline, jumper/sweater, and biscuit/cookie are disappearing.
I disagree that the hulking number if immigrants surrounded by the USA caused American English to be made "simpler". However, the immigrant had a life-size influence on the development of English contained by the USA and that accounts for many of the variation.
It was enhanced by Prince Phillip when he added "But Joined at the Atlantic"
And it's reference the certainty that England is the master of the English language and America have to follow.also, America, being originally populated by immigrant, they had to brand the language simpler and easier to spell so that lots of populace could quickly swot up the American version of English.
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