Aaargh, well Bowser, human nature is quite strange! I remember seeing a BBC documentary about how quickly a language can change and evolve. In the past, it was mainly the distance that had the greatest influence. From Paris to England, several days were needed and certainly many horses. And when we see how accents evolve from one area to the next, and then we cross a channel or a sea and you have an entire island, isolated from the rest of the world, where the population adopts a different accent even to the same words: example: "accent" is the same word with the same meaning in both french and english, and yet, it's often not even reocognized by the other culture, just because it's pronounced differently. Traditions...

Raoul