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Thread #124681   Message #2757637
Posted By: Ebbie
01-Nov-09 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
Subject: RE: BS: American English usages taking over Brit
"The Latin is Labor. Schedule comes from Latin Sceda, which in classical Latin was pronounced with a 'k' but in 'Church' Latin lacks it." Q

I've noticed quite frequently that a concession is made that the Americans' pronunciations are more historically/linguistically accurate than those of the British. Why is that? And why don't we, the Americans, get credit for that? :)