UK English Grammar vs. US English Grammar

[Fragony]

HA we don't have any use for that we are Dutch that is our usual state, highly educated and culturally refined, and if you don't apreciate our higher cultural norms you can sit on it and spin suck it up and spit it out.

[InsaneApache]

HA we don't have any ush for that we are Dutch that ish our husual shtate, highly educated and culturally refined, and if you don't aprecshiate our higher cultural normsh you can shit on it and shpin shuck it up and shpit it out.

Admit it, you talk English like that. All you Dutcsh do.

[Fragony]

Admit it, you talk English like that. All you Dutcsh do.

HA I speak 5 languages like that

[rvg]

Scottish accent is my personal favorite flavor of English. The U.S. midwestern is of course the gold standard, but Scottish is just plain fun.

[Subotan]

I can't speak for the British but every American I know rages out when they see the difference.

British spellings are pretty much the only things which differentiate "us" from "you", so one's nationalist, patriotic spirit is roused when we see "color".
Also, Humour > Humor.

HA we don't have any use for that we are Dutch that is our usual state, highly educated and culturally refined, and if you don't apreciate our higher cultural norms you can sit on it and spin suck it up and spit it out.

Pah, Dutch is just a mish-mash between German and English.

[Fragony]

Pah, Dutch is just a mish-mash between German and English.

Without actually being German or English. Small place, big world.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Louis is right: the world is quite rapidly shifting towards the ‘Asian English’ by which I mean the English as commonly found in manuals and PR-material of Asian consumer goods manufacturers. That's the kind of grammar which does away with all possible cause for confusion by simply omitting all of it. On the upside they do introduce a far more rich phonology to English: namely the Asian accent.

[Subotan]

Without actually being German or English. Small place, big world.

Touché.

[miotas]

I don't care if overseas people spell words wrong differently, but I do get annoyed if they say my spelling is wrong.

Another difference is in the spelling of Centre, litre, metre.

Scottish accent is my personal favorite flavor of English. The U.S. midwestern is of course the gold standard, but Scottish is just plain fun.

I'd love to be a Scottish standup comedian

[Husar]

Another difference is in the spelling of Centre, litre, metre.

Oh yes, those are the ones where I got for the american spelling of center, meter, liter because that's exactly the german spelling as well and I don't understand why they do it wrong in Britain...

[Subotan]

Oh yes, those are the ones where I got for the american spelling of center, meter, liter because that's exactly the german spelling as well and I don't understand why they do it wrong in Britain...

It looks better that way. Also, I dunno about other English speakers, but "re" makes me says a shorter "r" sound than "er".

[Louis VI the Fat]

Oh yes, those are the ones where I got for the american spelling of center, meter, liter because that's exactly the german spelling as well and I don't understand why they do it wrong in Britain...

The British spell it as 'centre, metre, etc' to honour their cultural overlords from whom they aquired these concepts.

[pevergreen]

Admit it, you talk English like that. All you Dutcsh do.

And yet when I met The Stranger I found that he had quite a british accent for a dutchman.



Just be thankful us aussies don't type in an aussie accent.