What is the language "British"?

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:29:25PM -0600, Michael P. Brininstool wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 19:01, Robin Laing wrote:
> >
> > Geordie dialect (Newcastle area) is believed to have the most authentic
> > with better than 80% historically correct :-)
> 
> Interesting!  I took a class in history where the instructor was talking
> about the evolution of languages and pronunciations, and he said the closest
> dialect to the British of the 17th century is  the dialect of American
> English currently spoken in the countryside around Atlanta, Georgia.

"British"? Isn't that where we came in?

If you (or your instructor) meant English, I would ask, which dialect?
As for linguistic migration patterns from England to North America,
see David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed, OUP (I think).

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