Indledning
The United States and Great Britain are two countries separated by a common language.
One of those separations is in the spelling of words like color (colour), theater (theatre), and realize (realise). But how did this separation occur?
The British people introduced the language when they reached America back in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Since then, the language in the two countries have evolved and it is easy to see the difference.
In Britain, the higher classes wanted to distinguish how they spoke from the common masses by softening their pronunciation of the ‘r’ sounds.
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Uddrag
Early American colonial spelling was more of a mess, with such creative spellings as jinerll for general. But eventually, two very important books would go a long way to standardize English in both England and the colonies.
The first of those books was Thomas Dilworth's A New Guide to the English Tongue, a book designed to teach kids spelling and pronunciation.
The other book was Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, a book that would go unrivaled for generations.
In today's English, it is easy to see that the two languages have differences in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, etc. But the key factor is both languages can communicate without too much difficulty.
The two countries have a lot in common, but humor is not one of them. If we start with British humor, they tend to use sarcasm and irony when they joke. They use insults, self-deprecation, puns, and innuendo.
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