By the way, are there any specific words from Am English that are anchored in Brit English? Although there are minor differences in orthography, vocabulary and grammar between British and US English, the two dialects are generally mutually

hi everyone. i have failed in an essay test by getting only 3 out of 20. it's unbelievable and i have totally lost my confidence. someone help me, please and point out my flaws. the essay is quite long but not as long as my grief is. (by the way i

Vasiliy wrote: To Mr. Forbes When Czechoslovakia split there was suddenly a new language - Slovak. The Slovaks wanted to stress the difference. I'm sorry, but Czech and Slovak are different languages during one thousand years to say the

I just have one thing to add -- all these excellent replies address the difference between "I'm getting married..." and "I'm going to get married..." which was certainly the point of the question. Actually, however, the origianl question asked

Hi Roro again Neither have I said " Boku wa ringo-o ooini suku " in my life. I usually say " Boku wa ringo ga totemo suki desu ". As far as I understand, " suki desu " is a polite form of " suki de aru " where " suki " is the 'ad-verbal' form

KYsheeplover06 wrote: Has anyone else ever noticed that if someone speaks with a Southern American accent, people automatically think they're not as intelligent as they'd normally think. I know it's true in some places, because I speak with a

Sorry for disturbing u all here: I'd like to know why are u so interestend in American accent? I mean: we 're talking in English. Isn't English native language of Great Britain's people? And if so, is it right to say that real English is British

As a linguist, much of this thread pains me. First of all, ALL languages have grammar. It is inherent to language and utterly impossible to measure if one language has more or less grammar than any other. Secondly, modern linguistics

Hello Abbie It is nice to hear you live in the northern part of England. I have some troubles about the interpretation of some passages in the Great Curse which was written in 1525 in the Scottish-English language of those days by Gavin Dunbar

No offense Trevor, but your post comes off a bit insular, isolationist and ignorant. Why the heck would an American's inability to distinguish between British and Australian accents mean they have a different idea of what constitutes an accent? If