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

Apon is a Middle English spelling of upon . Many u- prefixes were spelt a- in Middle English. However after spellings were standardised, the a- prefix largely fell out of use. The correct spelling in Modern English is upon . Although, in many

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

(bad US spelling and ruined punctuation rules) So it seems you are using flattery as your technique for asking people to help you? Interesting. Look up mothers-in-law versus mother-in-laws. Apply the same rule uncles. And speaking of ruined

NSEspeaker: My car needs washed. SE speaker: What? I do not understand you. There was a posting recently exactly with this syntax. The people who commented never said that the NSE line would not be understood, only that it was characteristic

So is this the dumbing down of England or have they always been dumb, too? Dumb enough to be the ones who came up with those spellings in the first place. English spelling is no longer phonetic, although it was to the monks and scribes who wrote

It is 'incorrect' only in the regional English which you are prescribing I'm not defending a regional dialect of English. I'm pointing out the correct form of the 3rd conditional spoken throughout England and other English

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The chemical elements are there in a same group of periodic table for a reason. The reason is they are similar in many respects. Every language needs a vocabulary, grammar, construction (which I think is

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 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