It’s a terrible disorganised mess, it’s inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.
It’s a terrible disorganised mess, it’s inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.
Sorry, when you said English and default I just assumed you were full colonial, and thought you meant simplified English, not British.
Briton can’t even decide on whether to pronounce all the R’s or not.
Such as? We can pronounce “mirror” perfectly well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
Does herb start with an e?
What of it?
All I’m saying is that British English is just as much as a mess as everywhere else. In fact, a lot of the mess is concentrated on those little islands.
How very dare you be so right.