Hi Mr.Wordy, With the name like Dimsumexpress, it's apparent that I am advertising my origin by design. If I have to describe my English learning, I would say it's a mixed pot of AmE and BrE, with the former being a 75% influence

Sorry Mr.Geek, I have no Intentions to confuse or hurt anybody. I was just trying to say how I was treated in this very same forum.That person who answered me should have searched an oxford dictionary too before answering. I feel so, and I

Please refer to the following link. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/people . I was once given the same link to check the word 'alit', when I answered 'I have never come across such a word' ,from this forum. I would like

1) To my ear, the versions with "fill in" and "fill out" are both OK. A couple of dictionaries I've just looked at say that "fill out" is mostly North American. I'm British, and, I must say, I've never

Hi guys, In American English, a doctor who specialises in internal medicine is called an "internist". What about in Britain? Thanks a lot

Hi CJChiu, Speaking from the perspective of American English, i would say that as a noun, 'transportation' is used much more frequently than 'transport'. Transport is most often a verb. You would say: The hotel provided

Hi, quoted from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary (http://www.learnersdictionary.com): a couple informal 1 : two or a few of something Note: In informal U.S. English, a couple can be used like a couple of before a plural noun. Ex: I

According to Newbury House Dictionary of American English, "service" is an uncountable noun when it means the care of a machine to keep it in good working order: When our oven broke, we called a repairman for service . According to

I'm Australian, and it's always 'tanned' here. But I would contend that is what it's intended to be in American English, too. I always used to read/hear 'tanned' in American media and books, and it's only in recent

That explanation is more germane to British English, and it seems satisfactory. Most collective nouns are treated invariably as singular nouns in American English. CJ