Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
The only thing Old English has in common with anything spoken today is that it was called English. It would be completely unintelligible to a modern english speaker. The suggestion of going back to Old or even Elizabethan English, is a raving reductio ad absurdum. Let it go. Reductio ad absurdum is not logic, it's the opposite of logic
to be fair rubahs was correct that USA was around before Queen Victoria.

So they have no need to speak the Queen's english

a better argument is why they don't speak the spoken english of the year 1776