<<It seems to me that there is more variety in pronunciation and word usage within the English language in the relatively small space England takes up than in all of the rest of the English speaking world combined. Go back in time and it would be even worse. >>

Good point Lawrie. It's also interesting that English is on the Germanic branch on the tree of languages (as opposed to the Latin branch, etc..) Those Saxons had quite the influence.

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