Well, Raggy, maybe if you-all over theah hadn't been so sloppy with our native rights, we wouldn't have walked on yore native tongue.

That said, I think the vast majority of Brits, Aussies, Kiwis, Americans, Scots and Irish have sort of accepted the notion that there is a vibrant, colorful, energetic branch of English called American, and its idiosyncracies are part of its magic. This Victorian love-affair with authoritarian prescription of latinate forms and extra vowels in rigid little lines kind of went out of fashion about a century ago, as these folks see it, and they have made their peace with it.

Why doncha join 'em??

A.