On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 15:00 +1300, Apptech wrote:
> > To be fair, American and Canadian english, despite some 
> > accent
> > differences (and I'm ignoring the more "regional" 
> > englishes like those
> > in the deep south of the US, or the east coast of Canada) 
> > is VERY
> > similar. Certainly much more similar then to UK or 
> > Australian english.
> 
> It is a fact, unpalatable to some (or even to many) that 
> spoken UK English is in general migrating towards current 
> spoken NZ (as opposed to Oztralian) English. We, being on 
> the leading edge of the Empire, have unwittingly set the 
> linguistic pace, as it were.

Is that true? Any idea why that would be? I find that pretty
interesting! TTYL
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