The survival of the Subjunctive in American English

[Odin2005]

I have noticed that my dialect of American English preserves the usage of the Subjunctive very strongly. Even the Present Subjunctive is still used often: "If you be good I will give you a cookie.", "I demand that he stop doing that!", "I insist that she go to the store". When I listen to the speech in other parts of the US I see the subjunctive used less, even in formal speech, that here. It seems that it be pretty much dead in informal speech in the UK.

It's funny, because I'm no grammar nazi, I use the subjective because people used it around me growing up, yet a got told by one of the college lab instructors, who is from the UK, that we "seem to talk in an old-fashioned way"! :rofl: