I think have got is British and got / have alone is American. I use the later because I learned American English.

It's Merriam Webster Collegiate for native speakers of American English, and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English and Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary for ESL students. The most complete in the world (but also unnecessarily

They're all correct, Anon. The word gotten is generally used as the past participle of the verb "get" in American English, and got is used as the past participle in British English. Thus your first sentence seems to be AmE, and the

Hi, 'Dove' is a feature of American English. It has become so common that it now appears in dictionaries, although mine notes N. Amer. informal . Best wishes, Clive

First lesson: In American English, we capitalize "I" and "American" and "English". We don't use capital letters in the middle of words. And we spell out "please." Okay, I realize you are asking for help

According to Newbury House Dictionary of American English, "service" is an uncountable noun when it means the care of a machine to keep it in good working order: When our oven broke, we called a repairman for service . According to

Hi, A small further comment. I should have written you sooner. Sounds like American English to me. I should have written to you sooner. British English. Clive

The CD keeps skipping. - Is of this sense commonly used in American English? I take physical possession of six monolingual dictionaries for learners, but I can find this use only in one published by Merriam-Webster, which is an American

Does everything have to be in full sentences? I mean African Americans have their own English lingos and they can describe a whole paragraph in a few words. What's the difference between Black English and Standard American English?

How do you pronounce those words in American English? There are basically six "R-colored vowels" in American English, represented by the sequence: Sharp thorns tear poor deer's fur. ( tear in the sense of rip ) You can look up