This topic originally came up in another thread but it is one very interesting to at least some of us, so I decided to continue it here.

Which version of English is the older? American English or British English.

On the surface it would surely be that of the Mother Land, but is that really so?

Linguists tell us otherwise. They say that the American English is nearer to the way English was spoken at the time of the American Revolution than that still spoken in the UK.

But hay! Don’t take anyone else’s word for it. What do you think?

English is a language spoken or understood by at the very least 500 million people, and some of the variances are astounding.