Translating English to English

Some Americans are pretty lazy, at least here in the South. Rule of thumb being, if you can make it a contraction, do so...

"Hey, where're ya'll goin' t'morrow? Should'n' you..."

English is weird. What happened to gender? How did that drop?

That's a creative version of English history! Wasn't the true story that most of the clever ones, who invented the language, left on ships for the Americas?

Anyway, I'll stop there because everyone who stayed back on the isles has to put up with a lot more of our bad art and our desecration of theirs than vice versa.

If only the history of English were so simple...

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heehee. Its Briton by the way. Britain is the country, Briton's are her inhabitants. The spelling of Sulphur with an "f" is now the convention and has been adopted by IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) as the correct spelling. Sadly.

Wow, way to represent your country by being an ass.

and seeing as we english(sic) were the ones to invent this language, i(sic) would have to say our version is better, not to mention the fact that Americans are obviously not as clever as the average Britain(sic), as[??] spelling, for example, sulphur or colour is too complicated, therefore they have changed it to sulfur and color.

Brits say all of these loads!:
row
can
elevator
eraser
fries (although it refers to a specific type of chip here)
guy
lawyer
line
mail
movie theater
truck

"bathroom
loo or WC"

Brits say toilet more than anything, but they say bathroom more than loo and they never ever say WC. They do howver never call them "restrooms".

"napkin
serviette"

More Brits say napkin that serviette.

"nothing
nought"

Nought is British slang, it's not the generally used word, most peope never say nought.

"rent
hire"

Brits use those words equally.

"sausage
banger"

Again, banger is slang, most people never use it unless they talk about "bangers and mash".

And Americans only say band-aid because it's a brand name. It's like how they always say Vaccum cleaner, but lots of Brits call them Hoovers because of the brand name.

WILSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

serviette was English? We use that and Jam in Canada...along Bum, I am told Americans ONLY call it butt or ass, is that true?

Americans can be very lazy, but England has their share of morons, too! :P

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it's not bullocks, those are male cows. It's bollo cks which is a slang word for testicles. It means nonsense e.g "you're talking utter boll ocks" or as a sign of annoyance "oh boll ocks!" I suppose it's not a million miles away from a certain 4 letter word that starts with an S and rhymes with git.

Git, that's a great word.

Americans are Fat.
Britons are Thin - Too Thin

I am neither. I am not too thin and not too fat. I'm an Australian.

OLE OLE OLE

it was actually posted on the 14/12/2005 (12/14/2005)

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ERIC-1226:
U.S.: as far as writing dates, e.g. October 18, 2004, is shortened to 10-18-2004
British: October 18, 2004 (written same as in U.S.), but shortened to 18-10-2004

*U.S. military would write date of October 18, 2004 as 18Oct2004

Actually, in Britain the above date would be written 18th October 2004, closer to the US military's way of writing it than how it would be written in the rest of the States.

As an Australian who spent his entire education in British schools, and has been watching American films and reading American literature all my life - I think I should point out that American English became standardised in practice before British English – and that it was an American (Noah Webster) who compiled the first English Dictionary to achieve mass distribution!

Whilst the importance of Sam Johnson’s dictionary can not be underestimated and was published first, it didn’t achieve sufficient distribution to those actually teaching the language in schools, as did Webster’s.

Also if it’s any help, there is a maxim: Good modern American English is essentially Good eighteenth century English English