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The response from the United States of America to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IIMessage from Her Majesty the Queen. • Let us start with your header, the use of Majesty. Here is how it is derived: After the fall of Rome, Majesty was used to describe a Monarch of the very highest rank -...

> *Britain is Repossessing the U.S.A.!* > > A Message from John Cleese (British comedian) > > > To: The citizens of the United States of America: > > > In light of your failure to nominate competent candidates for President > of the USA and thus to govern...

Hello Marvin A.It wasn't my intention to blame the British at all; I merely pointed out a cultural difference, for which there are a number of reasons. There is nothing new for me in what you write about prounouncing names in your post. The same difficulties that you mention exist for speakers of...

This is really badly off topic but I couldn't resist the temptation to comment on your correct observation. I understand very well that native speakers of English mispronounce foreign words because foreign languages are not studied much in English-speaking countries.Well, can you really blame us?...

J Lewis wrote:As I said before, we English-speakers do equally bad things, and worse, in our pronunciation of foreign words. The tendency is to pick on a particular transformation and apply it everywhere, just to show that we know "things are not as they seem" at first sight, without taking the...

of always has the 'v' sound at the end except in (typically faster) informal conversation, where the 'v' is sometimes dropped when the following word begins with a consonant, 'of' then being identical in sound to the word 'a'. Help! Help! An alligator's got a hold of me! (a hold a me) A...

I'd say 'to' fits quite well. As for bottling...I've only heard 'bottle off' in this kind of connection: 1. The band played abysmally, and were bottled off the stage. i.e. they were forced to retreat in a hail of beer bottles. Related verbs are 'bottle out', 'to have lost one's bottle',...

Here is a humorous compilation of expressions set in Essex pronunciation. ESL/EFL students-- the misspellings represent the native pronunciation; see if you can figure out the actual words meant: A -Z of Essex English: ASSA COMMONS - Our Parliament Building. ART ATTACK - Extremely perturbed,...

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