Task: Share your personal answer to the question using the comments section below.
The Question:
Why might there be more than one ‘correct’ way to speak English?
Note that the purpose of this exercise is for you to share your own opinion. Please try to refrain from asking AI what your opinion is; try to have a thought of your own. Thinking is very important.
I was lucky enough to read a university student’s paper this weekend which included a discussion on accents. Here is some up-to-date information on the topic:
Accent is a deeply rooted issue of identity and social perception with Boonsuk and Fang’s (2021) research finding that students’ self-perception of their accent can affect their confidence and communication skills. Stigma associated with accent can affect a students’ self-efficacy (Yan, 2021) and researchers (Jenkins, 2007; Martina & Xu, 2018) have noted that students can feel compelled to change their accent at the expense of their cultural or regional identity. It has also been shown that regional dialects impact second language acquisition (Liu, 2021).
I really ought to credit the student whose work I have paraphrased, but I’m sorry to say that I do not know their name, so thanks to anonymous (2025) for the above information.
Firstly, English are a language that is developed in Great Britain which during the extension toward North America, some of the Americans spoke through their accent but in English. Eventually, people in the region started changing the way they speak, like for example in America we call it “truck” but in Britain they call it “lorry”which the spelling and writing itself is different.
Secondly, because there is no right answers in language literature especially when it comes to finding the only and the correct way of speaking English.
In conclusion, because language itself never has a perfect answer, so does the way it speak, American English often simplifies spellings based on pronunciation and sometimes adopts Spanish or other foreign words, while British English often retains older, more complex spellings, especially those from French and German.
Nowadays English is a global language ,many countries has began to accept English , such as China.But it slowly becomes to evolute into something that is more “Chinese”, and began to combine some traditional sayings,and is later known as “Chinglish”. this type of English has a strong accent of Chinese ,and often has grammer mistakes, such as ‘slip carefully’ (LOL :D) ,it’s also deeply influenced by the simple version of Chinese,and contains all sorts of funny sayings.
Citation(MLA): Wikipedia Contributors. “Chinglish.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Jan. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish.
I’ve been an examiner in China for a long time so have seen plenty of Chinglish. Here are a few other examples for you:
Grammar: It’s good for my healthy.
Style and grammar: With the development of the social, … [at the start of an essay]
Pronunciation: She wears nice closes.
I also wonder what the fascination is with fruit salad and coins having two sides 😉
The important question is: Do these errors or inappropriacies matter? If we know what the speaker/writer means and the message is communicated, is standard accuracy important?