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

hmmm actually sometimes this -ize or -ise confused me damn alot!! like a confusion Of apologISE or apologIZE !!!anybody got a tip ?? If I may add something to this disccusion. I have frequently read articles written by Britons who use -ize, just

Hello! I am designing an informative poster to present my research paper. Please correct the text I am planing to display on the poster. Thanks ever so much! (It might be a pretty interesting read ) Poster Text: The Way to A Phenomenal Memory -

I quite understand why rhotic people would find the usual ... in the language where the combination "uh" represents this sound? Good point, "uh" doesn't really appear in traditional English words, does it? Searching on in

I'm currently reading "Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason". This is written by an Ameriacn academic by ... with the word "gaol". 1) Can anyone with access to OED verify when "jail" started to supplant

... } "Coop" doesn't clearly fit here, because one spelling has a } hyphen and the other doesn't. But it seems possible that } the "cooperative" sense may have at one time been spelled } the same and pronounced with two

...for some value of "the literature." See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001133.html#more, about halfway down in the discussion of the "Retart Zone". The entire article, both parts, is well worth reading.

John Dean: Anyway, Mel Gibson is producing a film about her so the question of pronunciation will be resolved there, as will ... Platform 10 at Kings Cross (and whether the sound of the pattering feet of the Hogwarts children pisses her off). If

Souping up? Except that's not at all what the announcer meant. Anyway, there's plenty of websites discussing the word. The most accepted spelling seems to be 'zhuzh', which reasonably well captures the pronunciation. Aha, yes,

Donna Richoux: I suppose I need to spell out ... that "911" ... to always be said "nine one one," though, didn't it? Richard Fontana: That was and is the majority usage. But "nine eleven" was occasionally heard.