skatty infrared: What would you say are the stylistic differences of US English and British English (aside from punctuation and other trivial ... could you tell me what impressions you tend to get from reading materials from the other side of the

I'm not sure this is actually directly an issue of ... grammatically correct English but never say "please" and "thank you". But would it still be proper English? I think that there is more to speaking a language than just

OK, but why do you have this impression? Is it because your mental image of Britain is removed from reality? This may be a reason, but I think Elisabetta pointed out another reason. In English, you use pharses like 'Thank you',

I came upon the word "pigsney" while surfing my OED ... usage, Does anybody know what dialect still uses the term? *The Century Dictionary* of 1895 showed it as being obsolete: (snip) The only recent (well, relatively recent) usage that

(Email Removed) (Lars de Kock) wrote on 28 Dec 2003: In e.g. "American History 101", what does the 101 mean, and what is the correct context to use it? Does it always refer to a first, introductory course of a particular subject?

) Not at all. The forms reflect the case, and the rules dictating which case is used when might change. No. You are, I think, falling into the common error (one notably common, and apparently controversial, hereabouts) of conflating inflection

You know not the ground whereon you tread. Do a usenet Google (the bulk is likely on a.e.u.). Long and often fiery threads. I'm sure there have been, and I see no need to get into them now. At any rate, I see ... considering it to have no more

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- I was at this party and it was really gay. Questioning revealed that 'gay' was being used to mean peculiar, unusual,queer. Anyone else come across this? Indeedly-doodly. Schoolkids use "gay" to mean stupid, rubbish and the

I may be mistaken, but I thought Claire Danes, an ... I'm correct, I wonder why she should. . . . This phenomenon is common in films, because the context is complex. There are no single British or American accents. As ... method is to indicate