Posts Tagged ‘American English’
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on June 30, 2010
Over here! Right over here in the red, white and blue … eyes off the ball for a minute! It’s American-English month, yeeha! We suggest that for the month of July you set your, of course, bookmarked/tabbed/favourited macmillandictionary.com to ‘American English‘ and practise pronouncing words in Am rather than Br … obviously, unless you do [...]
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Posted by Sharon Creese on March 10, 2010
OK, I’ve got a bit of a quiz for you. I freely admit that I watch too much television, and like many people, I watch quite a few ‘cop shows’, though these days, ‘cop shows’ can involve anything from genius mathematicians to lip reading FBI agents to forensic anthropologists! Whatever the spin of the particular [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on November 30, 2009
One of our readers – Trauma Queen – made a good point about global Englishes when commenting on Sarah McKeown’s recent blog about the expression “I’m lovin’ it”. Her question: Who decides what is “good” or “correct” English when the way it is spoken differs from country to country? raises some tricky issues about the [...]
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Posted by Drew Stanley on August 12, 2009
The subject of American English vs. British English is an ornery, troublesome one, and regularly appears in our blog posts. I’m particularly embroiled in this endless debate because I, an Englishman, have an American girlfriend. Now, ladies, please don’t cry. I know what’ll cheer you up: some comparative etymology. Never fails. Usually we just banter [...]
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Posted by Susan Jellis on July 22, 2009
‘Can I get some more paper?’ ‘Yes, it’s on the table over there – help yourself.’ This would be an unremarkable question and answer pattern but the colleague who was asked this question by several native speakers of British English recently was the invigilator of an exam and certainly did not give that response! The [...]
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