Dear friend, both a correct, but the first option is generally more common among British English speakers. The choice of the pronoun largely depends on your intention: if you wish to speak of a class as a number of individuals, you should resort

Re: 'I am undeer the impression that 'honor' is spelled "honour" in british english. Is that so?' Yes it is, but do also check your basic spelling: 1. under (not undeer) 2. B ritish (not british)

It depends on whom you ask. I'm sure nearly all Americans would use a comma after May 29 and probably the majority of Britons too. However, some British newspapers such as The Guardian have a dislike for commas in dates and write the date as

There's no one right answer to your question. It's a matter of style and usage varies. In British English people don't usually put a period even after Mr and Dr. That was very common about 40 years ago, though. CB

It's not "Football"! Football is the sports with strong men and, well, footballs. Soccer is "Fussball" or "Foodbal" in english, closer to the german word! I'm English but most of the time I don't have a

I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

In British English one would say all the "ands" which you have asked about. Thus: two thousand six hundred and eighty four. I believe that American (and it seems Canadian) English is different. Americans may well make an exception for

American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

TinyPixie, you are absolutely correct about the use of these prepositions, but there exists one nuance that you should take into consideration. Thus, on is used for giving phone numbers in British English, eg : Call us on 0800 0900017 , while at

I guess anyone can almost immediately tell that Clive is a native speaker while I am not, without even listening to the end of the voice recordings. Why is this so? Specifically, these are the "Asian speaker" giveaways: stu dents, labora