ENGLISH SPEAKER COUNTRIES

The UK government puts the following countries in the list of majority native English speaking: Americas: Europe: Oceanía: 
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * The Bahamas
 * Barbados
 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * The Bahamas
 * Belize
 * Canada (Except Quebec)
 * Dominica
 * Grenada
 * Guyana
 * Jamaica
 * St. Kitts and Nevis
 * St. Lucia
 * St. Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Trinidad and Tobago
 * United States of America
 * Ireland
 * United Kingdom
 * Australia
 * New Zealand

It is known that India and South Africa are English speaker countries but it is also known that these countries, after their Independence, broke the relations with the UK. Perhaps it is the reason why they are not in this list.

Now we can consider two principal english speaker countries: the United Kingdom and the United States of America, and identify some differences between them:
 * The United States practices the form of government of the federal constitutional republic, while the United Kingdom uses the constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system.
 * The United States has 50 States and a federal district, while the United Kingdom is a single State Kingdom made up of four different countries.
 * The United States is more like a continent (a piece of land grouped), while the United Kingdom is more like an archipelago.
 * The United States has a larger area than the United Kingdom, as well as a higher GDP or gross domestic product.
 * The United Kingdom was the most powerful nation in the nineteenth century, while the United States is the most powerful nation, to date, in the world.

We have also differences specifically in the form that the nations speaks their language. For example, in the United Kingdom we can pronounce the number 80 as “eighttty” making an emphasis on the “t”, while in the United States with the same pronunciation a person can interpret it as the acronym “AT”, because in the United States “t” letter is pronounce softer. It could happen with another countries that also speak English.

There is not an institution that controls the use of this language, so we have several changes about the use of the language. It is because the countries were conquered by the UK, but after their Independences they grew separately.

USA is the actual main country in the world. So it is influencing worldwide, including the UK. When in the USA another word is invented, it is almost an obligation to use it in all other countries. That’s why British English is adopting words from the American English, getting more and more similarities with this American English.

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Luis Manuel Chavez Velasco

Axel Michael Maytorena Ramirez