Would have the Tour de France officials tested Landis for "high testosterone" if he hadn't been American?

It seems that each pronunciation swallows a syllable--it's just that we don't all swallow the same one. However, some Americans do pronounce that word the British way. And some of us also say "comfortable"--one stressed syllable followed by three unstressed ones.

Linguistic evolution. Every dialect of English in the United Kingdom evolved from older dialects. None of the modern ones existed as is 400 years ago.

The same is true of every dialect in the United States. Linguistic evolution created every natural language and dialect we know about, living or extinct. 2000 years, Modern English did not exist.

Old English/Anglo-Saxon was much more like modern German, and no English speaker today would under a speaker from 2000 years ago, without learning Old English as a foreign language. Linguistic evolution works by producing dialects first, which over centuries or millennia, change so much that some of them become new languages. The process only ends when that lineage of languages becomes entirely extinct.

To hate any dialect of English is to hate the very process that produced English itself. Whatever version of English you deem to be proper or correct, has its roots in very improper Anglo-Saxon (aka Old English), which itself can ultimately be traced back to very improper Proto-Indo-European.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.