“Two nations separated by a common language.” The witticism of the playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), “probably apocryphal”, continues to define the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom, note The Daily Telegraph. The Americans are leaving vacationthe British in holiday (“vacation”). The latter deposit their rubbish (“waste”) in the trash when the first ones throw garbage.
“From the American Revolution, in the 18e century, American English differed greatly from British English in terms of vocabulary, spelling and pronunciation”. recalls journalist Tomiwa Owolade.
At the turn of the 19the century, the lexicographer Noah Webster claimed in black and white his desire to diverge from a Great Britain “whose language is on the decline” et “should no longer be our yardstick”. As early as 1806, thirty years after the Declaration of Independence, Webster’s first dictionary endorsed orthographic divorce: the suffix -our (as in n
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