about why the variety of English used in the US is different – and more traditional – to the variety of English used in Britain. Full transcript below. Philip Gooden: "Americans have taken ...

Long before Jamestown or the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Massachusetts in 1620, the US English style of spelling words such as 'honor', 'color', and 'center' were alive and well in British English.

In fact, only one Native American language (Navajo) came in behind English and Spanish just one city (Albuquerque), ...

In some areas of the US, especially in cities around the Southwest, you're more likely to hear Spanish than English. The US Census Bureau's American Community Survey asks over a million Americans ...