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Originally Posted by CD Smith
Dialects. Accents. We're talking English dialects and regional accents here.
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No we are not. According to
Merriam Webster (although other dictionaries give similar definitions):
Accent: A way of pronouncing words that occurs among the people in a particular region or country.
Dialect: A form of a language that is spoken in a particular area and that uses some of its own words, grammar, and pronunciations.
Neither of which allow for different spelling. For words like like "colour" being spelt "color" in American, "arse" being spelt "ass", etc. So - if you are saying that English and American are not different languages, and that they are just different accents and dialects then you too are claiming that all Americans are illiterate morons. That makes you too an anti-American racist!
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Although you are Canadian, and going by the few Canadians I have met, the default setting for a Canadian is "anti-American racist".)