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Nona The Brit wrote:slum prudery? Interesting turn of phrase.It's from "My Fair Lady". Nona The Brit wrote:I think it is pretty true that a lot of British people don't consider us as part of Europe in quite the same way as other Europeans. Politically, yes.I think the British people scared to...

slum prudery? Interesting turn of phrase. I think it is pretty true that a lot of British people don't consider us as part of Europe in quite the same way as other Europeans. Politically, yes. But geographically, no. We are happy to talk about 'going to Europe'. I'm sure it seems peverse to...

In British English, ill means unwell. Ill is most common in predicative position. She couldn’t come because she was ill. Before a noun, many British people prefer to use sick. She spent years looking after her sick husband. Be sick can mean ‘vomit’. I feel sick. Where is the bathroom?...

The correct British English way is she-jul but you'll find a lot of British people use the American pronounication of ske-jul.

Hi everyone,this thread is cool. Yeah, it's cool because I was just thinking of that "updating" and I thought it would be funny. Americans receive updates from England:Grammar Geek is at her computer, and sees a pop up, "Your database is pretty old, your vocabulary may not be up-to-date." Oh my,...

Nona The Brit wrote: Less than 5% of British people speak RP. Stephen Fry, for one ("Jeeves").

This is a bit of a myth. There was never a single British accent for American to be 'nearer' to. The short a sound still features in a lot of English accents. Less than 5% of British people speak RP.

Hi Kooyeen, then American English should sound very natural to British people Yes, it does. British people can understand mainstream American English very well. I guess there's less British English in the US than American English in the UK, nevertheless it seems that British English sounds...

RP, or what is know to foreigners as "British English", sounds just fine to North Americans. Whereas we can have problems understanding some of the regional accents in Great Britain, we have no trouble understanding RP. In fact, the only *noticeable* differences is that they leave out their r's...

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...