[Verginius Rufus]

To begin with, there is not one but two "th" sounds in English.

The "th" of "thin" is a different sound than the "th" of "the."

I don't think English-speakers in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are going to change the way they speak because of immigrants in SE England having a hard time with pronouncing English properly.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Although after Soros & Co. buy this election and send us all off marching into the New World Order, we’ll shortly all be speaking Esperanto. Rendering this moot.

[Olog-hai]

In Old English, those sounds were written with distinct letters, thorn when unvoiced (Þ, þ) and eth when voiced (Ð, ð). In modern Greek, the unvoiced sound is written with theta (Θ, θ) and the voiced with delta (Δ, δ).

[hadit2here]

<< Dr Dominic Watt, Senior Lecturer at the University of York, said: “Given the status of London as the linguistically most influential city in the English-speaking world, we can expect to see significant changes between now and the middle of the century. >>

Prof Watt doesn’t seem to get out of York much. *London* is the most influential city in the English speaking world? ROFLMAO Maybe a few hundred years ago, but I think he may need to get the news about that little colony across the pond that told George to FU a while ago.