Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

According to everything I've ever read, it is the opposite: English is undergoing a unification of dialects, especially between American and British variëties.

A squatty guy with a wide-dark face came out of the door of the office building and waved and pointed.

A semi-simple algebra over F is either simple or the direct sum of simple algebras over F.