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I too once learned in school that in British English "like to V" and "like V-ing" are used somehow in different contexts: they tend to use "like V-ing" when they are actually doing the action V and they tend to speak "like to V" when the action V is a future action. But I learned here in this...

An interesting question. My first instinctive answer - anyone from an English speaking country who learns from birth from a parent - falls apart now I stop to consider. A person could be raised in a non-English speaking country by native-English speaking parents and that would, in my opinion,...

I'm an actor, I'm going to start learning some accents just so I have them in my bag of tricks. I was going to start with a single British one, then move on to other countries/accents, then just keep learning more. What would be a good general British one to start with? Is there a dialect...

In regard to the comment on Americans not having the variety or plethora of accents present in the UK, I have a mixed response. Part of me wants to be angry because that is a pretty ignorant statement, but another part wants to agree with you for some strange reason. I will start off by...

"I went to a hospital", is correct because "hospital" begins with a consonant. I would guess that around 5% percent of Australians (those of lesser education) would say; "an ospital", as would a similar percentage of British people. Note that if there is such a thing as Australian English it...