In British English, the first would be considered incorrect. 'Yet' means that you are talking about a time period that extends right up to the present moment, so it is the unfinished past - present perfect is required. 'I

In British English, "shall" is not dead, but in everyday and conversational use it's simplest to (almost)always use "will". "shall" tends to have a formal or old-fashioned feel to it. There are allegedly

Read the article found in the following site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet . The article is mainly talking about British English Alphabet. The pronunciation is in the form of phonetic symbols. When they are talking about other

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

To me, a "pier" is, strictly speaking, a structure built out over the water on stilts, whereas a "wharf" is a structure built on the shore. But I guess this counts as "essentially the same thing". I'd

I think the 'like' version is AmE, whereas the 'as if' version is BrE. I don't think this is the full story because "like" in this sense is very common in BrE; I use it myself all the time in everyday

I would use "enamoured" (as we spell it in British English) almost exclusively in the expression "enamoured of", and often in the negative: "I'm not (particularly, especially, etc.) enamoured of ". This is not an

A good example is a multi-syllable word where the American English pronunciation has a different stress pattern than British English. If you click on the sound icons, you will hear the differences. LINK Mr M is correct that primary / secondary

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