Orbin English

Orbin English is a dialect of the English language and the principal dialect spoken in the Orbin Federation. It has some unique quirks that distinguish it from its American and Canadian counterparts.

History
Orb as we know it was settled by English people fleeing the continental colonies due to the American Revolution, thus bringing the English language to the Manitoulin archipelego.

Over the years as the Orbins became increasingly isolated and the Americans and British reformed their languages, Orbin English developed its own form and qualities.

In 1936, the Orbin constitution stated that the official language of the country was to be "the king's English", which was hence interprated to mean "British English", so thus all government documents and official publications used British spelling and grammar until 1993, when, under Premier Vivix, the constitution was reinterprated to mean simply "the English language", and that "Orbin English" was the official language of the land.

Overview
Orbins have a number of linguistic quirks which make them stick out from Americans and Canadians. First off, Orbins will oft use words or phrases no longer commonly used in most strains of English, such as "oft", "albeit", and "thereof".

Orbins commonly use the phrase "as to" in place of the word "about", as in: "I have to talk to him as to that...", or "What as to it?" Indeed, it is said that "as to that" is to Orbins what "eh" is to Canadians or "G'day, mate" is to Austrailians; a phrase that is universally recognizably Orbin.

Orbins have a few phrases all their own, as well, such as "longgoneby" or "long-gone-by", meaning exactly what it sounds like; the distant past.

The term Orbin itself, source of Orb is actually of native origin: it is a corruption of the Temikahah word O'rbri'i'in which can translate as either: "strange men with white skin and golden hair who come across great water in gargantuan canoes and destroy that loathsome tribe which long has burned our villages and raped our women and delivered unto us countless wonders the likes of which we have never seen and could only be sent from the gods" or, "pale-skinned gold-haired demon men who appear in gargantuan canoes and took our homeland by force using powerful spears which need not be thrown and forced us into confinement and gradually took our land and left us with nothing and sought to strip us of our identity".