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

Are you sure they speak standard American or British English? It sounds like it might be from a sort of dialect of English. Where I live nobody puts that pronoun there. The only meaning it might have, to my ear, is a sort of enthusiastic emphasis,

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

Like Yankee, I think the expression was probably picked up by the general public through movies, although that does not adequately explain the Liverpool connection I don't know about the American usage, but I had assumed

Your local dialect is closer to British English than to American. An American dictionary like M-W is not going to give you your local pronunciations. They'll all be American pronunciations. You'll have to change the too 's to choo

Hi Jeeza The first question you mut ask yourself is whether you want to speak British English or American English. I'm not a big fan of Hollywood, so I'll presume that you'd like to speak like an Englishman from what we term the

Hi, and welcome to Englishforums. I will move this thread to the section about pronunciation after you reply, OK? Because here we just post about grammar issues. Anyway, how sounds are produced depends on the dialect you are considering... there

Hi Roger: I am curious why you would like sentences that are not written in a way that Americans would often write. Do you prefer British English (or some other dialect)? ALso, it sounds like you are talking about 2 different problems, each

Whilst both 'gotten' and 'forgotten' are Americanisms in one sense, the latter is used with increasing frequency in post-WW2 Britain, in which American language has had a stronger influence. It is a falsehood that

Weird problem. I'd just like to hear as many opinions as possible. I have learned a lot of stuff about pronunciation, and I like to learn as much as possible, to keep improving my English. However, I have never seriously practiced spoken English,