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Like in most things Joel is wrong. The US has the larget population of English speakers random thoughts Send a noteboard - 31/07/2015 03:20:51 PM

And we have it by pretty good margin. If you move the bar to fluent English speakers it isn't even close. I don't have any data to back up which dialect Europeans who speak English as a second language gravitate towards but to my ear t sounds more American than British. That would make sense since so many of them watch American movies and TV. I don't think what they teach in school really matters. In America our schools teach proper Spanish but even the white people who learned as a second langue are more likely to speak with a Latin American dialect.

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Y'all, you guys, yous guys, or hey you all? - 25/07/2015 05:38:44 PM 1033 Views
Y'all may be the American South's greatest gift to the English language. - 27/07/2015 12:14:47 AM 665 Views
*whistles innocently* - 27/07/2015 04:17:43 AM 803 Views
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Perhaps, but you're also wrong. - 27/07/2015 04:45:48 AM 871 Views
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Funny.... - 29/07/2015 12:13:35 AM 734 Views
It is also correct if you are Sloth... on a pirate ship... *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:09:56 PM 543 Views
I will defer to you and Jeordam on that one - 29/07/2015 07:45:31 PM 708 Views
well since language is a democracy and the souther dialetic is the largest Y'all wins - 27/07/2015 02:07:22 PM 792 Views
The Southern dialect is the largest by what metric? - 27/07/2015 06:26:20 PM 780 Views
It also the accent most similar to what Victorian brits would have spoken - 27/07/2015 07:45:09 PM 707 Views
Whoa, now: The PIEDMONT accent may be closest to Received Pronunciation, but is not the whole South - 28/07/2015 12:37:56 AM 786 Views
I don't make the catagories but all the southern accents tend to be close *NM* - 28/07/2015 02:12:15 PM 495 Views
Except, as you noted, Virginias accent is closer to Englands (and New Englands, and South Africas) - 28/07/2015 11:00:46 PM 751 Views
that is not what I said - 29/07/2015 02:14:49 PM 764 Views
Sorry, I credited you w/knowing the Deep South, Appalachia and TX sound nothing like any UK accents - 29/07/2015 07:42:21 PM 709 Views
read slower and then read again until you understand what I said - 29/07/2015 08:14:19 PM 983 Views
"The people in the American South were Victorian Brits"?! I must have read that too fast - 29/07/2015 10:39:08 PM 718 Views
Erm. Not really sure what you're saying here... - 29/07/2015 11:35:26 PM 675 Views
Would "UK English" have been better? - 30/07/2015 10:47:53 PM 717 Views
Not really. - 31/07/2015 07:30:41 AM 672 Views
Like in most things Joel is wrong. The US has the larget population of English speakers - 31/07/2015 03:20:51 PM 778 Views
David Crystal estimates proficient non-natives outnumber native English speakers 3:1 - 10/08/2015 02:45:58 AM 651 Views
Interesting stuff. - 10/08/2015 07:12:26 PM 750 Views
Who says "yous guys"? Seriously? - 27/07/2015 07:56:28 PM 703 Views
B-movie mobsters - 28/07/2015 12:40:04 AM 875 Views
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Scots. - 28/07/2015 02:42:28 PM 733 Views
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Depends, are trying to sound cool, like a douche, or Joe Pesci? *NM* - 29/07/2015 07:12:28 PM 554 Views
The distinction between the first two is negligible - 29/07/2015 07:52:50 PM 724 Views

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