Resident: Scottish Highlands Ah, well! You can't expect me to answer from the viewpoint of this man! I thought your interests lay mostly with American English anyway. how do they know if something sounds odd? Sounds odd to who? Kooyeen! The

Hi Alc You may have better luck in getting quick responses if you post fewer sentences in each thread. Your assumption that checking and responding to your long lists of sentences is very quick work is not the case. Are you being paid to correct

Hi Hohhot! I'm glad to see a Mongolian from Inner Mongolia here. I'm from the independent Mongolia. And I've been to the Inner Mongolian border city, Erenhot, en route to Beijing. I heard people speaking Inner Mongolian there and it

<No. I believe 99.9% of Americans wouldn't even know what you are talking about, so their brains are intact.> Really? Some might disagree with you on that: The Elements of Style (1918) ( aka Strunk & White ), by William

If you mean he possesses a red car then you don't need "got"; you can just say "My father has a red car". Nevertheless, in British English it's extremely common in conversation for people to use "got" to

Hi, Is the following sentence correct: My father has got a red car. Yes. 'He possesses a red car'. OR should it be: My father has gotten a red car? This use of 'gotten' is a feature of American English. It means

Hi GG, I agree - That's what I would have inferred if the person insisted that "on" was meant and it was American English - that it happened JUST AS it shifted to the 15th minutes (or whatever minute it was). I hope you

Hi AlpheccaStars and Mr. Wordy, Thanks for you help. One American client says to me: a celebration dinner, while I saw a post in Yahoo, saying Beckham is having a celebratory dinner. Do you think it's probably because the

Yes Avangi, there are a great many differences between the two. They even use searate dictionaries; Oxford English & Websters American Dictionaries. Some of the most common differences are tap/faucet, pavement/sidewalk & the boot of

Hi Kooyeen I have never concentrated on learning any particular variety of English because it has always been my objective to acquire as good a command of the languagae as possible. Limiting my efforts to just one variety would constitute a