The Dave Phenomenon

[Dave B]

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Americans still speak quite a lot of olde English as a legacy of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Only when we want to sound like wankers ya bloody tosser.

Naw, them's mostly new English!  "Bloody" goes back to the late 17thC though, rowdy young aristocrats were called "bloods" and to be likened to them could be an insult in lower social classes. It has been used, fraternaly, in American gang culture has it not?

Thinking of "scallion", "skillet", "settle"and others that have been lost or changed meaning and pronounciation back here. Though, with "Internetese" some of those are changing. Pity.

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/new-fangl...d-england/

Language has to change but it's not always for the good.