a while back, a friend of my hubbys came over to our house. He’s come over from the US as he got married to a brit, and is looking for a job here currently. Anyway, after a day of interviews in the City, he came over, and in the middle of the conversaton i said to him cheekily, “can i look at your cv?” So he shows me the cv, and there is a section called ‘languages’ on the first page. He says i am fluent in japanese (he is of japanese descent) french, german**, American english and british english**…!!!
are we going away from the original post which was looking at words and not accents? because if we are talking accents there is no one single british or American accent anyway.
are we going away from the original post which was looking at words and not accents? because if we are talking accents there is no one single british or American accent anyway.
Innit!
Geordie being the best accent!
Mirch, you are talking about two different things in your initial post, your first example is of spelling differences, second and third are based on different names for things.
A flat is the same as an apartment, just 2 different words.
So people back home actually use British English terms?
I remember in High school I wrote a paper & spelled the word color "colour". Prof. marked it wrong calling it a spelling mistake & I told him oh its British English. Got my point back hehe evil me.
So people back home actually use British English terms?
I remember in High school I wrote a paper & spelled the word color "colour". Prof. marked it wrong calling it a spelling mistake & I told him oh its British English. Got my point back hehe evil me.
u had that? my first semester in undergrad my english composition prof circled every british spelling in red wroet br sp on it and took points out, I asked her to change it because it was not wrong and she told me this is an american english class and i have to live with it.
I escalated it to dept chair, who met with both of us and I showed him course description from the catalog and said that there is more inc ommon between englsih and england than e n g and l.
needless to say I got all my marks back :D her and I actually ended up having a pretty good understanding and even when i took the eng comp 2 class, I took it with her.
u had that? my first semester in undergrad my english composition prof circled every british spelling in red wroet br sp on it and took points out, I asked her to change it because it was not wrong and she told me this is an american english class and i have to live with it.
I escalated it to dept chair, who met with both of us and I showed him course description from the catalog and said that there is more inc ommon between englsih and england than e n g and l.
needless to say I got all my marks back :D her and I actually ended up having a pretty good understanding and even when i took the eng comp 2 class, I took it with her.
Haha. Smart. Guess being Desi does have its advantages :D
What's priceless is when you see other students envying you because the prof. lets you get away with it.
Us British folk tend to put a ‘u’ in quite a few of our words!
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