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As we all know, there are many places in U.S. where Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Greek and other languages are spoken.
So I'm wondering, is there any town/neighborhood in the U.S. where Brits are the majority of population and British English is most commonly spoken language?
There are a lot of British tourists and residents in Orlando. In the areas of town by Disney World and Davenport, there are a lot of English transplants, restaurants, bars and businesses.
There are tons of Brits in many US cities, but I cannot think of an area of recent Brit immigrants that you could call "Little London" or Englandtown (although there is a place called Englishtown, NJ but I don't think it's majority Brit these days). The dozen or so Brits I've worked with in recent months who live in NYC are scattered all over the place. They tend to be able to afford, and hence live in, some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the City.
Edit: I'll add that I think the closest thing you may find to a community where most people speak a form of British English is if you look to places like Tangier Island, Virginia. It's an isolated community where the local dialect is said to be sort of a fossilized or remnant of 17th Century English
I agree. I don't think there are big dialect communities for British English like there are for other languages. I'm curious about Tangier Island, though...I'm going to have to look that up.
I have noticed a lot of British slang seems to be filtering into American English lately, though...
There are tons of Brits in many US cities, but I cannot think of an area of recent Brit immigrants that you could call "Little London" or Englandtown (although there is a place called Englishtown, NJ but I don't think it's majority Brit these days). The dozen or so Brits I've worked with in recent months who live in NYC are scattered all over the place. They tend to be able to afford, and hence live in, some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the City.
Edit: I'll add that I think the closest thing you may find to a community where most people speak a form of British English is if you look to places like Tangier Island, Virginia. It's an isolated community where the local dialect is said to be sort of a fossilized or remnant of 17th Century English
Santa Monica, California seems to be the largest city listed. However this is for "born in the UK" and not specifically England. So far all I know Santa Monica just has lots of Scottish-accented people or they're all British transplants who abandoned their accent.
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