PS: @ khoff

You asked me onetime where in the US I was, because I said English was spoken so poorly. Well, I am in PLymouth, IN. I am exchange student. And as I said people make mistakes in their daily speech, which even I can notice. (I have only had three years of English at school.)

The mistakes they make are mostly in the conjugation. I mean, they would say; "Where is the carrots?", "There is a million of people." etc. (Latter one really confused me, I thought it was right, because even Custer said: "There is too many Indians." "If I was king and I wished I was ..." is said aswell.

There are some more, I don't want to list them however, it's just informative anyway. I talked with my teachers about it and they told me English was spoken really liberally.

I am glad, though, double negatives and "ain't" is not used.

Have a nice day, Jake

Hi,

marchioness.  Who came up with THAT one?

Google says this: The title derives from 'march' meaning a boundary; a word which survives in The Marches - that once tempestuous borderland between England and Wales. A man in high command defending a frontier of this nature was known as a Lord March. This eventually became Lord Marquess, but the derivation is clearer in the name given to the wife of a marquess - marchioness.

So, 'marchioness' is clearly a 'more accurate' form of the title.

There's also temptress, which is one of my favourites. It's also more common in the female than in the male forms.

Best wishes, Clive

A recent invention (I think) in the UK is "ladette" as the female version of "lad".

For hundreds of years "lad" was simply a colloquial English term for a boy.  Recently though, lad has been more specifically implied to young males who often go around in groups and who's behaviour is a bit rowdy and uncouth.  "Ladette" has become popular in the last few years as a term for females who behave in a similar way.  Some think of it as derogatory, but some girls would consider it a badge of honour!

Is ladette used in other English speaking countries?