Re: "An Herby" vs. "A Herby"

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:09:32 -0500, you wrote:

>CAT wrote:  I think Pat is right that American English is closer to the 
>"original" than British English.
>
>I can hear the halls of Oxford reverberating with giggles, Big Ben has just
>hesitated, her majesty has hiccupped, and the Lords are jowl-wagging.
>American-English closer to "original" English than English-English!

>Their lordships would look over their noses and suggest the colonials are at
>it yet again. "Tut-tut - you've been smoking that tea instead of dumping it.
>Whatever will you Americans think of next - that you're actually speaking
>the Queen's English no doubt?"
>

It is amusing, especially to a Yank married to a Brit.  But
it's evidently true.  (I've read enough about it to know
that it's true.)

My husband - when asked what kind of accent he has - of
course says that *he* doesn't have an accent, they invented
the language.  Many, many Americans do not recognize his
accent because it's not typical 'BBC English', which more or
less represents the south of England.

When we lived near Baltimore, I had to translate all the
time, both ways.  He didn't understand the local people at
all; they didn't understand him at all.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry 
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