I think you may be asking for explicit, black and white answers, to questions which don't lend themselves to such answers. There seem to be two problems in that there are: *Differences between British and American usages. *Differences in

In British English one would say all the "ands" which you have asked about. Thus: two thousand six hundred and eighty four. I believe that American (and it seems Canadian) English is different. Americans may well make an exception for

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

Hello, I have a question. I have been studying English for some years now, and, at this moment, I have reached the point that, in my pronunciation of English idioms, I sound very near native, which is a good thing, obviously. However, over the

BTW, is the usage of American constructions/pronunciation in British English acceptable or is it treated as a mistake? American constructions and pronunciation are no problem in Britain. And if foreigners use these nobody will really notice,

I hate to be the spanner in the works here, but this subject is near and dear to my heart. As most of you know, I am an American working in Greece. The majority of Greeks in Greece insist on the innate superiority of British English to American

Hi All, So many students in my groups have an American pronunciation of lots of words, like basket = (baeskit). ... this American pronunciation? - correct it? - or: point out that the British pronounce a word differently + tell how? The only time

I've always been curious about the difference in pronounciation of this word in UK and US English. In US English the word is pronounced as it is written (ljuutenent), while in UK English people say 'leftenent'. Does anyone know where

If you tell me the name of the program, I can tell you how PROnounce is different. Almost all the major language learning PC software titles use template-based pronunciation analysis. Such systems often score people worse for missing the exact

Afrikaans only became an official language in the 1920s, and trek entered English long before that. Of course, but it didn't come from the Dutch spoken by academicians in the Netherlands; it came from the Dutch spoken by farmers in South