Hi, let me help you, I am Canadian. First of all, there is the correct way to say numbers, and the everyday/slang way. The proper way is " and" means a decimal. You NEVER use "and" unless denoting a decimal. How about

Wow...interesting thread you all have going... as a Southern African American (reared in Mississippi, no less), I must say that I pronounce sword as sord (without the w), the way that I was taught to pronounce it in school. I don't think the

There's very little more pitiful than a white man trying to be black to please a black audience. Why is that? With me its the same thing with black people trying to be white. You mean the ones dating and slicing the blondes? Thats why Im so

Yes, yes. But you do have to put forward some ... you have to provide evidence that that might have happened. One should not insist that the etymology of an idiom be proven more precisely or accurately than the etymology of words and phrases that

I just heard Scott Simon (obTWIAVBP: American radio host) say ... is this Scott Simon going off into his own world? Not off in outer space, but in a decided minority. I haven't noticed any regionalism or ethnic background to it ... form a firm

I just heard Scott Simon (obTWIAVBP: American radio host) say "puberty" as POOberty. I and that calm fellow at ... PEWberty pronunciation common and I've never noticed it before, or is this Scott Simon going off into his own world?

Uh oh. The jangling alarm of old, hotly contested dispute. ... they're bigger, but still 0.4:1. The handwriting's on the wall. If you could run the numbers so as to get counts of UK usage and US usage separately, I would ... impression

1953: June 22nd Cyndi Lauper (full name: Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton), is born in Brooklyn-New York (punctuated like that) ... schools. The one that gave her the honorary high school diploma was Richmond Hill High School in Richmond

On 29 Jul 2004, Bob Cunningham wrote Is that where American tourists get their pronunciation for a certain London landmark? I'm sitting here saying the name of every landmark in London I can think of, and none of them remind me of

I don't hate America, Charles, and I certainly don't hate ... things in a certain way here. There's a big difference. I find this thread fascinating and I can see Chris's points. I think people place the age of becoming aware ...