for your help! -Kumambachi

So are you saying that the sentence "This cake is quite good" would mean "This cake is not very good (perhaps even terrible)" to speakers of BrE? Or, when you describe it as a "euphemism" do you mean it stands for something even more profane? I

"Got Milk?" is a catch phrase used in advertisements paid for by the dairy industry to get people to buy and drink milk in the United States. The campaign used pictures of famous people with "milk mustaches" in order to encourage milk drinking. I

I recently read somewhere that the Estuary accent was slowly taking the place of Received Pronunciation in the UK. Whether it is true or not, I have no idea what the Estuary accent sounds like! Is there anyone that is fairly well-known (in the

Some people say "in three weeks". Others will say "in three weeks TIME". This goes for days, years, months, etc. Sometimes the latter feels redundant to me but it seems common.

Thanks for the responses! So if the person is a tourist it may be "fair" to call this person a foreigner, yet if the person has lived in a country for a long time then they might become offended. From just a glance, to tell how long someone has

The word "foreign" used as an adjective seems innocent enough. There are foreign languages and foreign objects. However, when applied to a person it seems to have negative connotations. In English, is the word "foreigner" derogatory? What are

Same here, but I have always thought that "whilst" was on the slow road out of common English usage. "Amongst" and "among" both seem to occur in American English however. Whilst "whilst" seems very King James.

If you want to hear an accent that is fairly representative of the contemporary Southern U.S. accent, then you should try to listen to an interview with the American pop singer Britney Spears. She is from Louisiana. The way she speaks is fairly

In some ways the American Southern accent might be easier to understand because people who use it tend to speak slower. U.S. President Bush speaks pretty slow. The accent used to portray people from the South in movies is not one that accounts