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2dognight

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2018, 06:52:41 AM »
   

6/10 for American

8/10 for British


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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2018, 06:57:58 AM »
5/10 US
8/10 UK

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2018, 07:38:15 AM »
5/10 American
10/10 British

New Zealand is still a close British colony!

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2018, 08:20:58 AM »
10/10 American
8/10 British

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2018, 11:29:10 AM »
9/10 UK
4/10 US (two of which I actually knew)
Just keep swimming, swimming...or cycling, walking, dancing and singing!

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #20 on: March 10, 2018, 07:18:44 PM »
3/10 US
7/10 UK
Good grief!  Losing the plot!  Been downunder too long.
I'll sleep in my next life

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #21 on: March 10, 2018, 08:39:25 PM »
7/10 US
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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2018, 07:55:24 AM »
5/10 American
10/10 British
Phew, 😅 English through and through with a bit of Scottish and Greek thrown in for good measure! 😀

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2018, 08:28:37 AM »
The 'Do You Speak American?' quiz had one questions which I think unfair:
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Question 4 - What is a rutabaga?
1. a baby parsnip
2. a type of yellow-fleshed turnip
I suspect the vast majority of Americans cannot recognise a rutabaga or a parsnip, and many could not recognise a turnip.

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2018, 08:45:27 AM »
Here's a joke which can identify whether you speak American or British English:

tortoise: beer?
turtle: just tea, thanks
tortoise: wine?
turtle: no, tea please
tortoise: sure?
turtle: yes I'm [turns to camera] Tea Turtle

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2018, 09:49:02 AM »
I don’t get that. I mean I get it, but I don’t see how it identifies which flavo(u)r of English you speak.

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2018, 10:21:10 AM »
I don’t get that. I mean I get it, but I don’t see how it identifies which flavo(u)r of English you speak.

Two reasons: one phonetic, one grammatical — at least according to the author of this book which began this topic.

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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2018, 11:42:01 AM »
I've not seen the book, but I'm guessing that this joke might work with a N-East England / Tyneside / Geordie accent.  The accent is familiar to all Brits but not, I would have thought, to Americans.

Spoken by someone like Jimmy Nail, total might indeed sound like standard English turtle, and turtle would be pronounced more like 'tortle'.


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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2018, 07:45:45 PM »
I'm slipping! Old age...

8/10 - UK
4/10 - US

My dad was a Yorkshire man from Huddersfield but I have never heard anyone as fluent in Strine as he was, with an Aussie accent! Don't seem to hear it much any more though, or am I out of touch? Anyone remember "They're a Weird Mob"?
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Re: American vs British English - new book coming out
« Reply #29 on: March 14, 2018, 12:54:52 AM »
3/10 US  :-[
9/10 UK

Thanks Alan!