>>33676009Literally how? British english has a bunch of genuinely unmecessary letters added in (stuff like paediatrician vs pediatrician, humour vs humor, both of which are artificially added by people that wanted english to sound more french and later removed by Webster) and also stuff like many of their particular accents (Received Pronunciation, for example...) omitting pronunciation of many letters that are now vestigial, which are otherwise used in American english: stuff like "er" at the end of a word devolving into "uh." Not to mention that that specific example is reversed as well, for whatever reason; "idea" becoming "idear," for example. Completely insonsistent use of the english language that American english is very consistent with.
Now, there are a lot more accents on both sides that mess with these sweeping generalizations, and I'm not even saying that British english is worse or something. However, it's very evident that British english is very, very inconsistent with its phonetic values and spelling consistency, and that American english - due partially to intentional attempts to modify it to be more consistent - is indeed more consistent.
