Show future english speech i matter of speculation iff in two centuries tile the english speak ing world will not be speaking eng elsh according to 11 C balley bailey british writer what it will speak Is to be a strange compromise between future british english and future american english a lingo perhaps mercifully hidden by providence from our imagination ile he adds this prophecy Is not mine it was made hy by a lecturer in phonetics A lloyd james ills reason for the hybridization of our language Is that there are many more people in the world today who speak Amerl earr english than there are speaking british english here we have one of those undeniable statements which in fact Is I 1 fallacious america has many more citizens than aban this country but they do not all speak the same tongue the inexperienced english ear could detect even it if their own novelists did not insist upon it differences difference in the speech of the american from the eastern states from the south ard and from the middle west ivest which lj is the true american english |