Why brits are better than americans

Regardless of this, the differences between American and British English can raise issues in the classroom that the teacher must resolve. Some will take the form of a personal attack. These problems may surface after a change of teacher, specifically from one speaker to the other, British to American and vice versa. Your students are not joined at the hip with English like we are. The nuances and subtleties of English are light-years away from their comprehension.

They are as far away from understanding these differences as we would be when faced with learning a new language that we know nothing about.

They will certainly know that Americans and British have different accents but they will not understand the aforementioned differences unless they are taught. The teacher must explain that the two flavours of English are different and whenever necessary highlight where these differences are. The teacher must also be consistent within the rules of the English flavour they are teaching: spelling, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.

To avoid disputes over meaning and spelling, always have either a Merriam-Webster or Oxford pocket dictionary on hand. Both dictionaries will show the different spellings and meanings of words. Dictionaries solve many classroom problems as they are independent arbiters of disputes regarding spelling and meaning. If you also understand the phonetic code, they resolve pronunciation issues as well.

So which one is better? My viewpoint is neither. They both serve a purpose and they are both consistent within their rules. They can raise classroom issues but these can be dealt with as described in the previous section. Is one set of rules superior to the other? Both have their own consistencies and inconsistencies. Is one easier to use than the other?

Now it gets interesting. American is very slightly easier to spell thanks to Mr. British and American pronunciation styles both have their inconsistencies. Is one easier to listen to than the other? Yes and no. But when it comes to tailoring, there are still two words by which every other sleeve, seam, and shoulder are measured: Savile Row.

How do the Brits like to let their hair down? How appropriate that the Brits should have found an irreproachably civilized way to while away the hours between lunch and dinner; namely, nibbling on crust-less cucumber sandwiches and miniature eclairs while taking decorous sips of English Breakfast and other infusions.

Well, yes, but then along came the multi-Emmy-award-winning Downton Abbey to remind the world why it fell in love with Brit TV in general, and heritage-Brit TV in particular, in the first place—burnished stately piles, rigid class divisions, stiff upper lips, sexual peccadilloes both upstairs and down, and a living national monument in the shape of Dowager Duchess Dame Maggie Smith and her withering put-downs. Fish and chips? Not even close.

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