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I don't think "the world" really cares. Seriously. There are so many dialects, accents/pronunciations, use
different vocabulary and grammar - why anyone except linguists would ponder that?
The standard American accent - what Americans think of as having no accent - is rhotic, meaning that speakers pronounce their “r’s.” Typical British accents is non-rhotic.
Americans kept their rhotic accent, for the most part. Port cities on the East Coast, especially in New England, had a lot of contact with the R-less Brits, and lots of people there don't pronounce the "r".
That's the main difference, IMHO.
As for liking? Brits and people who have more contact with Brits are used to their accent. And maybe for them American English sounds a little weird, but I don't think they dislike it.
Personally, I don't dislike American English (or any other type of English for that matter, Canadian, Australian, Indian, etc.) but I do dislike some of the more pretentious pronunciation. Like saying "erb" instead of "herb" and "fillet" as "fillay". I just don't find it sophisticated or clever
I see a poster every now and then from the UK who says they either prefer, or more closely relate with the southern American accent vs the standard American accent. This is very interesting to me, as an American with the standard/Midwest accent, whatever you want to call it, these two accents sound as if they could not be further apart. Although perhaps it's UK speakers with the less well known accents to American ears that relate with the southern accent.
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Personally, I don't dislike American English (or any other type of English for that matter, Canadian, Australian, Indian, etc.) but I do dislike some of the more pretentious pronunciation. Like saying "erb" instead of "herb" and "fillet" as "fillay". I just don't find it sophisticated or clever
Americans aren't trying to be "sophisticated or clever" but instead, generally that's how they/we have always heard these words pronounced and therefore how they learned to pronounce them. In fact, in the US it's generally considered incorrect English to say "herb" pronouncing the H or "fillet" pronouncing the T. It is also considered incorrect to pronounce "aluminum" as "aluMINium." Etc.
I do dislike some of the more pretentious pronunciation. Like saying "erb" instead of "herb" and "fillet" as "fillay". I just don't find it sophisticated or clever
Pretention requires awareness. I assure you the average American is wholly unaware that they are mimicing French pronunciation when they say words like herb or filet; it is simply the consensus pronunciation. Or even if they know the pronunciations are French, they are unaware that much of the Anglophone world uses more prosaic pronunciations of those words.
For that matter, In the intervening 200+ years since the separation of the US and Britiain, the UK has become way more Francophilic (pretentious, even?) in its language.
You mean, "I paaked my caa in the Haavid yaad" and still call soft drinks "tonic"? I was born in Boston and I never spoke like that.
I'm from Massachusetts and I don't talk that way. Some people still talk that way in the eastern portion of MA, New Hampshire, and probably Maine. We don't say "tonic" instead of "soda" either. But that accent extends quite a way inland in MA, as far as Worcester, MA. I find it to be one of the more ugly American accents.
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