Hey, English, I am sure you can contribute a lot to the book, even more after researching at the British Library and at the British Museum! Uau! these must be really great, when I'll visit England, I will spend all time in both of these places...
if they aallow me, I can even sleep inside these places!!!
You mentioned something that is really curious for anyone who is no-english speaker... there are also written differences between english and american english ... but undoubtly they don't seem much different when I read them, but when I watch some movie, or TV news, oh my God, it doesn't seem to be the same language...
. I studied british english, and a close friend of mine is a US Citizen living in Nevada; well, when I call him, if anybody else answers the call, it is difficult to me to understand, and I am surely that it is for them too... once, a friend of him asked if his friend (me) was Arabian speaker...
The same occurs with the portuguese spoken in Portugal and in Brasil...
We are all waiting for the results of tyour interesting researchers, o.k.???