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Today I finally understood a joke I've been missing for 40 years. My fault of course -- I only speak American, not British.
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Today I finally understood a joke I've been missing for 40 years. My fault of course -- I only speak American, not British.
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Today I finally understood a joke I've been missing for 40 years. My fault of course -- I only speak American, not British.
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Today I finally understood a joke I've been missing for 40 years. My fault of course -- I only speak American, not British.
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Today I finally understood a joke I've been missing for 40 years. My fault of course -- I only speak American, not British.
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"There’s something truly magnificent about the marriage of raw power and Italian craftsmanship. The Ferrari Enzo remains, in my view, one of the most sublime achievements in automotive history. A proper masterpiece of engineering. 🏎️💨
What’s your all-time favourite supercar? Cheers for the follow!
#Automotive #Supercars #FerrariEnzo #Petrolhead #CarPhotography #BritishEnglish #Introduction" -
"There’s something truly magnificent about the marriage of raw power and Italian craftsmanship. The Ferrari Enzo remains, in my view, one of the most sublime achievements in automotive history. A proper masterpiece of engineering. 🏎️💨
What’s your all-time favourite supercar? Cheers for the follow!
#Automotive #Supercars #FerrariEnzo #Petrolhead #CarPhotography #BritishEnglish #Introduction" -
"There’s something truly magnificent about the marriage of raw power and Italian craftsmanship. The Ferrari Enzo remains, in my view, one of the most sublime achievements in automotive history. A proper masterpiece of engineering. 🏎️💨
What’s your all-time favourite supercar? Cheers for the follow!
#Automotive #Supercars #FerrariEnzo #Petrolhead #CarPhotography #BritishEnglish #Introduction" -
"There’s something truly magnificent about the marriage of raw power and Italian craftsmanship. The Ferrari Enzo remains, in my view, one of the most sublime achievements in automotive history. A proper masterpiece of engineering. 🏎️💨
What’s your all-time favourite supercar? Cheers for the follow!
#Automotive #Supercars #FerrariEnzo #Petrolhead #CarPhotography #BritishEnglish #Introduction" -
"There’s something truly magnificent about the marriage of raw power and Italian craftsmanship. The Ferrari Enzo remains, in my view, one of the most sublime achievements in automotive history. A proper masterpiece of engineering. 🏎️💨
What’s your all-time favourite supercar? Cheers for the follow!
#Automotive #Supercars #FerrariEnzo #Petrolhead #CarPhotography #BritishEnglish #Introduction" -
Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language
Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […] -
Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language
Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […] -
Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language
Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […] -
Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language
Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […] -
Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language
Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […] -
When your British TV interviewee says, "I'm a kid from a council estate" but the transcription AI you're using is USA-coded, things can get apocalyptic pretty fucking quickly.
#AI #Artificialintelligence #BritishEnglish #AmericanEnglish #journalism #journalists #interview #thatescalatedquickly
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🎯 Want to sound wise in English?
Use this proverb: Money can’t buy happiness 💸😊- не в деньгах счастье, счастье за деньги не купишь.
Perfect for life lessons and everyday wisdom!💬 Comment your favorite proverb!
📲 Save this for your vocab boost!#englishproverbs #moneycantbuyhappiness #learnenglish #advancedenglish #englishteacher #englishforrussians #britishenglish #americanenglish #vocabularyboost #IELTS #CEFR #EnglishTips #EnglishLearning #АнглийскийЯзык #ПреподавательАнглийского
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Want to sound romantic and fluent in English?
Use this idiom: head over heels 💘 - влюбиться по уши, сходить с ума от любви, потерять голову.
Perfect for IELTS and real-life love stories!
💬 Comment your favorite idiom!
📲 Save this for your vocab boost!#englishidioms #learnenglish #headoverheels #ieltsvocabulary #advancedenglish #englishteacher #americanenglish #britishenglish #englishwithgiorgio #passivevocabulary #vocabularyboost #romanticenglish #datingidioms
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To improve findability, alternative spellings for English terms have been added to General Finnish Ontology YSO. Previously, British English spellings were favoured [sic], but now they have been joined by American English spellings: theatre and theater, self-defense and self-defense, organisational behaviour and organizational behavior etc. Over 600 YSO concepts were provided with an additional spelling. #YSO #english #britishenglish #americanenglish #spelling #ortography
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At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.
I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.
To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!
#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop
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At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.
I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.
To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!
#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop
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At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.
I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.
To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!
#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop
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At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.
I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.
To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!
#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop
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At my work's annual meeting, we did an exercise of telling a colleague a difficult phrase in your native language.
I chose bɔ́'əl ó wóː'ə, which they couldn't understand and didn't believe was English.
To many southern Brits, it is of course "bottle of water"!
#BritishEnglish #Pronunciation #EnglishPronunciation #GlottalStop
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FWIW, Canadian English already uses the -our construction. Harbour, etc. So we're not using the USA spellings there.
If you want to switch things back to British style from American, the S / Z thing is a candidate. Specialise vs specialize, etc.
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If you are from the US and Brits are giving you a hard time for talking about "soccer", tell them to bone up on their own history!
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer
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Dear Canadian and Indian ex-coworkers of mine - what are some common colloquial phrases you might have used at work that I, as an American, would have been unfamiliar with?
I'm thinking like "Tickety-boo", "Bob's your uncle", "Do the needful", etc...
#AmericanEnglish #IndianEnglish #CanadianEnglish #BritishEnglish
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CW: Today's wordle answer contained in rant about today's word.
No, #wordle, that isn't how to spell fibre. I've only just recovered from the doughnut debacle. #britishenglish
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Dear UK folks, help me with a vocabulary term! What would the common, daily use term for this kind of bag: #BritishEnglish #AmTranslating
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"As it got under way in Seville province this week, officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil force prevented 465kg (73st 2lbs) of olives from being stolen near the town of Albaida del Aljarafe."
I thought Brits only used stone to weigh themselves. Is it also olives?
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Has anyone in the history of #HibernoEnglish or #BritishEnglish ever used the word "cheque" to mean "the bill at a restaurant" or am I looking at a writer of #AmericanEnglish trying & failing at setting their scene outside of the US?
Kudos to them for Europeanifying the word "check" I suppose, but also an editor probably should have caught this. Do they still exist, editors? -
Why do Americans ‘color’ but the British ‘colour’? Thank Noah Webster
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/americans-color-british-colour-thank-noah-webster/3114564.html -
Gerade wieder mal "What in the world?" von der #BBC gehört (aktuelle Folge zur fallenden Beliebtheit von #Dating -Apps). Sehr empfehlenswerter #Podcast mit spannenden aktuellen Themen, manchmal auch abseits des politischen Tagesgeschehens. (Und mein #Englisch hält es auch ein bisschen warm, vor allem weil man zur Abwechslung auch mal #BritishEnglish (mein Lieblingsenglisch) hört 😃).
Hier der Trailer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0g311jk
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I usually don't have a strong opinion about the difference between #AmericanEnglish and #BritishEnglish. Frankly, I just use them interchangeably.
Saying zed when you mean z is so much better than saying see for both z and c. The previous sentence also sounds better when you read it as zed:
Saying zed when you mean see is so much better than saying see for both see and see.
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My instinct is "cone" which is I think of as #AmericanEnglish but I feel the #BritishEnglish way would rhyme with "fun" rather than "gone".
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Well, I stand corrected. Seems like I'm the weirdo that says "towards" despite being from #murica
#grammar #AmericanEnglish #BritishEnglish #amwriting #WritingCommunity
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On #LearningKorean.
I can't help but notice that many pronunciations and transliterations of #English loan words in #Korean are based on #BritishEnglish. As a #PhilippineEnglish speaker, it is confusing.
Example: computer
* Philippine English: kom-pyu-ter (neutral and syllabic)
* British English: kom-pyu-to
* Korean transliteration: 컴퓨터
* Korean romanization: keom-pyu-teo
* Korean pronunciation: kom-pyu-toIf it was me, the transliteration would've been 컴퓨텔 (keom-pyu-ter) or 컴퓨텔루 (keom-pyu-ter-ru).
Again, I'm still learning. These are just my observations coming from Philippine English and #Filipino #languages.
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And another thing. Where do you #Brits get off naming something like Leicestershire?
I bet if I try to pronounce it you'll be like "no it's pronounced Brad; see, the letter R has an echo and that's a long L."
#uk #english #englishenglish #britishenglish #british -
Americans and speakers of #AmericanEnglish!
Please note that if you say something is “quite good”, a #BritishEnglish speaker will read it as “kinda good, meh”, rather than “very good”.
Almost nobody seems to know this and I’ve seen at least two workplace examples where the British English speaker was offended by the, apparently, very-faint praise.
Just tell us we’re “awesome”, we know what you mean by that. (Or do we?)
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TIL that some speakers inflect the “on X's behalf” construction for plural, labiodental voicing and all, and it's truly blown my mind
#BritishEnglish never ceases to amaze #morphology #syntax #dialectology #LanguageVariation #linguistics
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And another thing. Where do you #Brits get off naming something like Leicestershire?
I bet if I try to pronounce it you'll be like "no it's pronounced Brad; see, the letter R has an echo and that's a long L."
#uk #english #englishenglish #britishenglish #british -
And another thing. Where do you #Brits get off naming something like Leicestershire?
I bet if I try to pronounce it you'll be like "no it's pronounced Brad; see, the letter R has an echo and that's a long L."
#uk #english #englishenglish #britishenglish #british -
And another thing. Where do you #Brits get off naming something like Leicestershire?
I bet if I try to pronounce it you'll be like "no it's pronounced Brad; see, the letter R has an echo and that's a long L."
#uk #english #englishenglish #britishenglish #british -
And another thing. Where do you #Brits get off naming something like Leicestershire?
I bet if I try to pronounce it you'll be like "no it's pronounced Brad; see, the letter R has an echo and that's a long L."
#uk #english #englishenglish #britishenglish #british -
So when did we lose "might" as the past tense of "may"?
> If it hadn't rained, they might never have met.
> If it hadn't rained, they may never have met.
Only the first construction sounds correct to my ear, but I rarely read anything but the second these days. Is this a #BritishEnglish vs. #AmericanEnglish distinction? Is it just the language marching on and leaving me behind?
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#BritishWriters advice needed. For a scene set in a school, does one check for someone in the “girl’s room?” “Toilets”? “Rest room” like in the US? #Thanks #amwriting #writingadvice #BritishEnglish
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Interesting piece from @naomiohreally (sub req). Is #HibernoEnglish going mainstream across the #EU?
Is the case of the #Latvian PM’s #Irish inflections an accident or intentional?
Might #BritishEnglish be falling out of favor because of #Brexit?
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Week 26, 2023: What @[email protected] album languages grew the most this week?
Order! Order! The Brits (native to the 6th largest English speaking country in the world) put The Colonies in their place. 🥇🇬🇧🎉
📊 #Wikidata 🎶🎵 #ExMusica @[email protected] #BritishEnglish #Blimey #Poppycock #Adele
