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English speakers DO commonly use incorrect terms or grammar, whether it be verb tenses or whatever. It doesn't bother me if many or most people say 'Oh' instead of 'zero' in phone numbers. I do too sometimes, depending on who I am speaking with. I went to a school in Australia that taught a...

Is there any way of abbreviating the term "telephone number" which is recognised as more correct in British English than other ways? I've seen "Phone 12345", "Phone: 12345", "Tel. 12345", Tel.: 12345" and others, and am wondering which one to choose for letterheads.Also, are country code, area...

This is interesting. Anyway, we haven't get an opinion from a British English speaker yet. But if I get it right, when Americans watch British movies, they watch them in British English (that is, they watch the original movies, as thet were made). And British people watch American movies in...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

p317 1. page three hundred (and) seventeen 2. page three seventeen 3. page three one seven Which of the above reading is NOT acceptable? p 1322 4. page one thousand three hundred (and) twenty-two 5. page thirteen twenty-two 6. page one three two two Which of the above reading is NOT...

No really - please, if anyone knows, write it out on the Net. I too would like to know. Im searching but there are no answers to be found. This is as far as I´'ve come: Use Has -. when only one of easch thing, It, She,m He , A /An/One etc Or If a colletive , for instance the family/the Police...

Despite Marius's examples, I can assure you that 'gotten' certainly is not acceptable in British English. Of course, if you google you can find an example of absolutely any and every word in use somewhere or other. That doesn't make it standard. You also have to apply a little thought to the...

Englishuser wrote: As you can see above, 'gotten' is American English. It's no longer standard in British English to use 'gotten'. So the choice is yours; yet I'd like to encourage you to choose a variety of English and then use it as consistently as possible. BBC and others say...

I think both "a ten-storeyed building" and "a ten-storey building" are valid. "ten-storeyed building" refers to, uh, "quality" meaning "a building that has 10 stories" in the same way that "three-legged stool" means "a stool that has three legs" "ten-storey building" refers to "number" wherein...

British English is more accepting of The club have ... There is a greater tendency in BrE to match the verb (in number) with the notional subject. That is, if the speaker thinks of the club as a plurality, he or she uses a plural verb with club. The club has ... is very definitely the...