One thing I've heard (all?) British people do is say a long "O" like "eh-O", as in words like "no" spoken "neh-O." Australians always say long "O" with an "ah" or "ae" sound

Well, it depends. Suppose there are two universities in my city. One has a very high reputation, the best teachers, the hardest classes, and is very famous. The other does not have a very good reputation. Someone asks me "Which university did

Hi, pals. I'd like to read your comments on this issue: Why do native speakers use "in", "on" and "at" when speaking about streets? Is this a matter of using British or American English? I've heard British

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At 18:42:27 on Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Pawel Piotr Stawski (Email Removed) wrote in : This is good. We said unpleasant things to you, eventually, because you had already said unpleasant things to us - whether or not you realised that you were doing so

I've heard (say, in some British songs) the following pronunciation: the vowel in "got" was pronounced in a sort of ... where a similar thing could happen, say "pot", "stop", etc. I mean I didn't notice it in

Andrew Gwilliam typed thus: I wouldn't consider the ROI as foreign, nor Australia or ... be foreign, but not quite so foreign as, say, Afghanistan. It's worth mentioning that (in my opinion) the US is *far* more foreign to Brits than is

Here in Aus we were told (very strictly indeed) when ... solecism or have the Poms reverted to the old expressions? The official name is "pence", or "penny" for the singular. The "p" was only ever meant to be used in