A few days ago, alert reader John sent me a very clever Newcastle commercial that poses the question, “What if the British had won the Revolutionary War?” (As I’m writing that, I’m realizing that I have no idea what the British call that war. Surely not the same name, right?)
The commercial posits that if the British had won, we would now have:
- better comedy
- better television
- better, more sophisticated rude words
- better accents
- higher taxes that would be spent on things like the royal family
- lawyers who wear powdered wigs
- all the mushy peas we could eat
- free–albeit untimely-health care
If the US were still a part of Great Britain, would Harry Potter have the same magical appeal that it does to us Americans? Would we be really good at soccer but not win a game in the World Cup? Would we have just one universal English spelling for everything instead of American English and English English?
You tell me.
Universal spelling, I like that. A really good soccer team but not win a game in the World Cup! Haha, where are the Brits to defend themselves? 🙂 But I guess you can’t argue with the truth.
We call it “The American War of Independance”, or at least my school history lessons did.
Thanks for sharing, Steve! I actually think that title makes sense from our perspective as well.