Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Discovers r/AskEurope" video.

  1. In my school it was strictly British English, the 'recieved pronunciation' or 'Queen's English', including typical British ways of saying things. This was not judgemental, but more to set one clear standard, and doing so teach the proper distinction from both American and British local accents, from the idea that American comes more naturally and if you master proper English, you will be fine in the USA too and there was already enough exposure to American English. Similar to German and French, we weren't taught Canadian French either, you have to have one defined language with right and wrong ways to spell and pronounce it to be able to teach it well. One could have picked American English too for the same reason, but it's not the origin, Shakespeare and Irish writers like Joyce and Wilde didn't write in it. Foreign language teaching goes back to at least the early 1800's and there was little American English around back then, so generations of teachers would teach how they would have been taught. Picking American authors for the mandatory literature reading was not discouraged at all though.
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  2. Dogs don't have "daddies" and "mommies' here, but have a boss. Cats don't do bosses anywhere of course. they only do staff.
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