Do people with southern accents speak English or is it a new form of language that should be called American?

I'm currently living in sterling CO, USA. And king sized beds should be called Presedent sized, queen size should be First Lady size and so-on so-forth.

I'm sorry to mention this nexus old chap, but if you domicile is in our old colony of america, then I'm afraid that one will have an american accent. "More tea vicar?"
"No thank you,it makes me fart" :D

When our queen croaks whilst eating swan, we can look forward to calling it "the kings english" and if prince charlie had a daughter who suceeded him to the throne, it would then revert back to the queens english.By the way, we have an art critic over here called Brian Sewell, he gets on TV quite a bit, and he makes our queen sound like a whore! just my two pence worth :m:

Forgot too mention the royal family, they will survive, their a huge cash cow for britain.They fuck it up now and then, but by and large we tolerate them like an embarassing relation at a wedding. For a giggle do a search for prince phillip's gaffs when he opens his mouth- some are just genius!

LOL :D Don't they say that the USA and UK are two friends separated by a common language :)

Tea WITHOUT MILK!! ARE YOU MAD SIR?? :D

why yes, i am quite insane :D

in answer to the question, i do consider myself to speak american english, and i also feel that the two languages should be seperated in some way.

the atlantic ocean does taht pretty well :)
i know, lame joke

Engilsh (the one in england) sounds like a whole lot of gay people talking, but that's how thay sound to me.

Has anyone else read Bill Bryson's excellent The Mother Tongue? There's an entire section toward the back of the book dealing with the future of English, and the theory that American English and British English will eventually develop into two separate languages (a theory that's been bandied about for nigh on two centuries now).

Personally, I think the "splinter effect" that occured when Latin broke into Spanish, French, Romanian, Italian, <i>et alia</i> will never occur with English (or at least not to the same degree), mostly because the geographic and cultural isolation that allowed these languages to develop in such distinct ways has largely been destroyed by globalization and mass media. Dialects, yes. Mutually unintelligible languages? Not bloody likely. :D

I don't think it'll happen because "English" is becoming more and more worldly used.

Oh, and I forgot to mention that, in addition to Mr. Bryson's excellent book, one may also wish to check out

http://www.linguistlist.org/~ask-ling/archive-most-recent/msg05264.html

for a thread dealing with the development of the "Southern Accent" and variants thereof.

It is a bit labyrinthine, isn't it? Then again, linguists aren't exactly known for their frank and forthcoming nature. Our motto is, "When questions do great doubt create, don't be afraid to obfuscate."

;)

Of course, I'm only a "junior" linguist. I'm sure that, once I have my degree, I'll be admitted to the <i>sanctum sanctorum</i>, where we all speak pidgin Etruscan while diagramming imperative clauses lifted from pottery shards.

Hmm. On second thought, it might be time to switch majors. :bugeye: