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I can't speak for the British people, of course, but "off of" is a collocation I know is used
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I'm curious to find out if it is grammatically correct to use words off of together, for exemple: " He got scared and fell off of the aircraft." I'm sure Americans use it, but does the British people use it? Thank you. -strazdins
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Hello Teo
I'm not sure I would find it odd if someone said "Nice meeting you!" instead of "Nice to meet you!", or vice versa.
(Unfortunately British people are more likely to say "Hello", make a little mouth-and-eyebrows movement, and
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Anonymous wrote:
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I'm not native English speaker and I pay attention what British people say is there anyone who can correct these sentenses I think they are incorrect but there were spoken by BRitish, apparently - their first language
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hey
I'm not native English speaker and I pay attention what British people say is there anyone who can correct these sentenses I think they are incorrect but there were spoken by BRitish, apparently - their first language
1) If you wrinkle
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Hi Anon,
You wrote:
My Oxford dictionary says that WANNA is american english word (or contraction), GONNA also is AmEn, but AIN`T isn`t.
Which Oxford dictionary are we talking about? There are dozens of them.
'Wanna' is found in the
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MrP seems to think that What's the Story (Morning Glory)? is rubbish... What a joke!!! Your'e comments are rubbish mate not the album... Morning Glory went onto sell 19 million units worlwide and is the second biggest selling British Album Ever!!
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Hi Nona the Brit,
You wrote:
Ha, Queen Elizabeth isn't a good role model speech-wise for anyone. I'd say about 0.00005% of British people speak with that accent and everyone else laughs at them.
Haven't you noticed that HM the Queen
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Ha, Queen Elizabeth isn't a good role model speech-wise for anyone. I'd say about 0.00005% of British people speak with that accent and everyone else laughs at them.
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2. Why would a British people argue about whether people should put the milk in the cup first, or the tea?
...because tea is our 'national drink' and everyone thinks they make it in the best way and everyone else is wrong. It is one of the main
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