Thread: What trips you up when reading books from different English-speaking countries?
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Old 01-13-2022, 02:54 PM   #60
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What bothers me is when someone fromt he UK says that their English (Queen's English) is the one true English and we speak American. That's BS. When the Pilgrims came to America, they spoke the same English. Yes, English changed in both countries. But one is not more true then the other.

Australia has another English dialect. That's no more wrong then the others.

The only English I don't like is the Southern accent. Y'all is not a proper English word.
Y'all is a contraction you all. Ya'll is a misspelling of y'all.
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