Wow, what a lot of nonesense. Is American English simply lazy English with disregard for the fundamentals of the language, or is it a valid simplification of an overly complex and irregular language? Huh? What are you talking about? I was

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

How many Americans are aware that the "long 'o'"of Received Pronunciation is different from the American "long 'o'"? Some American accents have a "long 'o'" that is similar to the "long

Interesting. I can't even think what distinction might be made ... pronounces it in "halve"). What distinction do you make, exactly? Some accents in the Eastern US have a split in the "short a" class. Vowels before certain

The English spoken in different parts of Britain is very different. Scottish English sounds nothing like cockney English, for example. ... to an American accent? Surely it would be better to, at the very least, separate English English from

-snip- I'm reminded of the Candid Camera episode where Jonathon (sp?) Routh went around London puzzling pedestrians by asking for directions to odd-sounding places such as "key-aps-iddy" (Cheapside). (Cue comment about a TV programme