Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
I always sorta liked the old timey spellings of things...lends it a bit of flavour.
The funny thing is that US English has kept lots of old English expressions which have fallen out of use in the UK, like 'gotten' - there are others which I've now forgotton. I read somewhere (not sure how true it is) that a US accent is much closer to what an English accent sounded like in the 18th Century (before Received Pronunciation also known as BBC English was used). It is said (again I don't know for sure) that the reason for RP was so that the old money people could distinguish themselves from the 'new money' people who made their fortunes during the industrial revolution.

Anyway, sorry to derail, y'all!