skua on Nostr: I had been under the impression that #AmericanEnglish was a deliberate bastardisation ...

I had been under the impression that #AmericanEnglish was a deliberate bastardisation of the Mother Tongue done in an attempt to create and demonstrate differences from the imperial enemy.

But if the following webpage is accurate then USAEN is often an example of the preservation of the then current Mother Tongue by emmigrants. And modern BritEn is the result of ongoing drift under the influence of monarchs, Doctor Who and Boris Johnson.

https://monissa.com/writing/spellingnotes.html