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Honestly moving to american english would be a good thing for britain. I've seen even native mfs failing to understand each other's pronunciation. British english has something like 18 vowel sounds but only 6 vowel characters. Multiple letters have the same sound and a single letter can have multiple sounds. That's not what i call an alphabet. Even american english has lots of unnecessarily complexity, but it made a step in the right direction. Ideally, many more such steps should follow.
What are you talking about? Is this a fucking ai bot because this comment makes no sense.
Lol. Kids spend months studying phonics in grade school because brit english resorts to multiple vowel combinations to express different vowels. https://www.englishradar.com/english-pronunciation/english-vowel-sounds/
Consonants are even worse, in many cases there is no way to know how to pronounce a word just by its letters, you have to know its pronunciation already. In general there are many rules and tons of exceptions. GH sometimes is pronounced F, while S is sometimes pronounced SH. Why? When? No real guidelines there.
Some of these rules have been simplified in american english, so for instance colour became color. That's a good thing because the only real argument against it is preserving etymological roots, which nobody gives a fuck about.
Huffing 30kgs of american exeptionalism per day ends up damaging about 90% of neurons by age 25.
Poor guy. 😥