Yes but from what I've learned of history we were lucky. For one thing the total might of the British army couldn't be brought against us as a large part of it was fighting the French and other powers at that time. I mean we couldn't even supply Washington's troops properly because no one trusted our money here. In fact farmers here sold goods to the British troops more than anything because they could trust the value of their coin. Anyway anytime you have a powerful colony building country spreading out there is going to be some change to the speech of the group doing the colonizing I think. I mean up til fairly recently(the last century or so) it was a two month
trip from England to the U.S. for example. Colonies at a distance develop differences from their mother country. A change in the language is just one of them.
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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
We (Brits) are probably more used to regnal numbers for monarchs; for some reason, you guys stopped that particular folly in the late 18th Century  |