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Yes. Your grammar book must be very old. Some elderly British people may still use should instead of would in sentences like yours, but would is very common even in British English. Some young Americans might consider your sentence wrong!Should is used in a number of ways but the most common use...

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...

To tell you the truth, I've never heard any foreigner (unless they learned English when they were very young, or had lived in an English speaking country for at least a decade, and had extensive, and personalized accent coaching) ever be able to pull off either an American or British accent....

Clive wrote:I believe 'should' in this context is more a feature of BrE.Hello I vaguely remember I learned "I should have liked to do" in school days, X decades ago. And I have thought it is a BrE version of "I would have liked to do". But I have found on Google that current British people...

Dear sir, Number 3 is perhaps «have you ordered a drink yet»? I have heard British people say «see you in a bit». Kind regards, Goldmund

The number 234,506,789 should be read "two hundred and thirty-four million, five hundred and six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine". I think that is the way British people speak. Americans would read mostly as "two hundred thirty-four million, five hundred are optional. paco

I was taught in school that it is a rule for Americans to read 45,671 as "forty-five thousand, six hundred seventy-one" whereas for British people as " forty-five thousand, six hundred and seventy-one" . As for your question (40,500), I have googled as follows to know how people read it...

Hello guys I'm interested in a thing some of you wouldn't like to talk about. If you get unpleased reading this post, I'm sorry for it. The thing is how you would ask to someone when you have an urge to urinate in a place you visit for the first time. A phrase I first came across with is...

I'm an actor, I'm going to start learning some accents just so I have them in my bag of tricks. I was going to start with a single British one, then move on to other countries/accents, then just keep learning more. What would be a good general British one to start with? Is there a dialect...