US ENGLISH OR UK ENGLISH ?
By darshakk
@darshakk (2141)
India
10 responses
@spcbrass (1190)
• United States
1 Dec 06
I speak US English, but I speak it properly. I try not to use slang when I talk to people and I try not to speak it with any sort of accent if I can help it. We use a lot of slang over here and some of our accents are just brutal. Sometimes I can't understand what people are talking about over here. If you were to speak to me versus many other people here in the US, you would find that I am much easier to understand. A lot of it has to do with laziness that has spread into our language. People just don't enunciate or speak clearly enough anymore.
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@vipul20044 (5793)
• India
1 Dec 06
Yes, Uk as well as US english are the two sides of a coin
SOme people are comfortable with the UK one and the others with the latter
The accent, as well as sometimes the words differ a lot
I too feel it much more easy with UK English
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@nancygibson (3736)
• France
1 Dec 06
UK English has the longest history though that doesnt mean that US English shouldnt continue to eveolve as a new dialect in its own right. I prrefer to see spellings in UK English though, but thats just what I am most used to.
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@mags31ca (203)
• Canada
15 Mar 07
I speak Canadian English lol!!! Actually here in Canada we use UK English. In school we are taught the proper UK spellings and grammar. Personally I like it that way, I strive to teach my son to use the proper words and grammar and stear him away from slang of any kind.
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
18 May 08
It is interesting that you brought up this topic actually! I have to do a LOT of business writing in my job and the US English translation areas drive me absolutely insane!!! I use UK English; and I am constantly being pulled up by colleagues who inform me that I have spelled words incorrectly when in fact I haven't! Especially in the case of using the UK English - "s" - instead of - "z"; words such as maximise instead of maximize for example. There are many, many disparities and as I have said, I get questioned a lot. I have actually had to change my spelling many times and I don;t really appreciate this because by the time I end up back in my home country I will end up being wrong all over again!!
@SkatingBella (57)
• South Korea
18 May 08
Theres no such thing as "proper English," languages change over time due to newer generations of people.
I speak English, whether its US or UK English it honestly doesn't matter to me, its all the same in my opinion. I spell most of my words the US way (I was born in the US, but raised in Canada).
:)
@gary_law (84)
• Hong Kong
7 Oct 08
There are quite a lot of other varieties of English in the world, so different group of people may choose to speak different varieties of English.
It is much easy for me to speak and write in British English (in this response British English means Received Pronunciation) as I have been taught in such variety.
I believe in this : A sophisticated person would switch his variety under different circumstances.









