Posted by Dave Thewlis on December 15, 2003 at 20:12:41 from 148.78.245.12 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Radio Broadcasting - winging it posted by RichardG on December 15, 2003 at 14:44:28:
Possibly, but a good bit of it has to do with separate "evolutionary" paths after the American Colonies were first settled. It's interesting that the nearest thing to Elizabethan English which can currently be fouhd appears to be in remote areas of the American Appalachian Mountains. Apparently a lot of British usage changed dramatically during the Napoleonic Wars and no parallel change happened in the United States (deliberate rejection of French terms and replacement with English ones is the kind of usage change I am referring to).