英式英语药丸？连英国人都开始使用美式拼写了_时事

英式英语药丸？连英国人都开始使用美式拼写了

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然而现在有消息称，英式英语地位不稳，就连英国人都开始使用美式英语了……

British English may have come first, but around the world, the American way of spelling is now far more popular.

英式英语出现的较早，但从全球看，现今美式英语的拼写方式却更受欢迎。

A recent examination of these two variants of the English language show that publications now largely use the American version, swapping words like ‘centre’ for ‘center’ after the 1880s.

近期一项对这两种拼写的研究发现，现在的出版物广泛使用的是美式写法，自从19世纪80年代后，就有把“centre”替换成了“center”等类似情况出现。

According to the data, this shift was further strengthened around the time of World War I – and as the language evolved, even the British have ditched the spelling of some words for their trans-Atlantic counterparts.

数据显示，这种替换现象在第一次世界大战时尤为明显。随着英语的发展，甚至连英国人都开始使用美式拼写了。

The charts revealed on Steemit were generated using Google Ngram Viewer, and show the usage trends of numerous words between 1800 and 2000. In the graphs, American spelling is shown in blue, and the British version is indicated in red.