Photo: Maurice
I considered writing a post on the differences between American English and British English, but then I realized I am not particularly qualified considering I have lived in California my whole life. Instead, here is a funny rant by a British man telling us how we are misusing the language:
Mentioned in the video – American vs. British (links go to audio):
- Lieutenant pronunciation: loo-tenant vs lef-tenant
- Aluminum vs. aluminium
- Plow vs. Plough
- Tidbit vs. titbit
- Color vs colour
- Trunk vs. boot of a car
- Sidewalk vs. pavement
- Could care less vs. couldn’t care less
- Hold down the fort vs. hold the fort
- Research pronunciation: reesearch vs. risearch
- Bernard pronunciation: berNARD vs. BERnard
- Herb pronunciation: erb vs. herb