Some English used in the US was deprecated on main, but it still was in use in the fork.
American English used a number of things that fell out of fashion in GB/UK, but the US kept them. It also doesn’t help that some non-major GB dialects were over-represented in some early settlements
Honestly moving to american english would be a good thing for britain. I’ve seen even native mfs failing to understand each other’s pronunciation. British english has something like 18 vowel sounds but only 6 vowel characters. Multiple letters have the same sound and a single letter can have multiple sounds. That’s not what i call an alphabet. Even american english has lots of unnecessarily complexity, but it made a step in the right direction. Ideally, many more such steps should follow.
That implies that eventually, everyone will move to American English.
American English is more of a soft fork than “bleeding edge”
Some English used in the US was deprecated on main, but it still was in use in the fork.
American English used a number of things that fell out of fashion in GB/UK, but the US kept them. It also doesn’t help that some non-major GB dialects were over-represented in some early settlements
Honestly moving to american english would be a good thing for britain. I’ve seen even native mfs failing to understand each other’s pronunciation. British english has something like 18 vowel sounds but only 6 vowel characters. Multiple letters have the same sound and a single letter can have multiple sounds. That’s not what i call an alphabet. Even american english has lots of unnecessarily complexity, but it made a step in the right direction. Ideally, many more such steps should follow.