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Sir Golfer Harris 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 · @sirgolferharris
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Just recently in our former colonies…

#BritishEnglish #americanenglish #usa #lustigesgegendoofes

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Kristian Harstad · @KristianHarstad
449 followers · 1002 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

do you say ( style, as in "out") or route ( style, as in "root")?

#english #american #americanenglish #BritishEnglish #path #route #network #networking #routing #router #us #uk #pronunciation

Last updated 2 years ago
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· @bignose
86 followers · 1379 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@royal @grammargirl

I was raised in on and yeah, "gaol" is what I reach for first.

The connotations would be significantly different because of different societal/historical baggage. British used incarceration in different ways, and for different purposes both explicit and implicit, from how US used it.

#australia #BritishEnglish

Last updated 2 years ago
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Tim J · @timtfj
210 followers · 2112 posts · Server mastodon.social

This 🙁, despite the 's name, is not a . Frowning in is done with the forehead and eyebrows. (I keep having trouble remembering the code for the emoji because of this.)

#emoji #frown #bre #language #BritishEnglish

Last updated 2 years ago
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Ulrich Lintl · @ulintl
235 followers · 9138 posts · Server mstdn.io

At the end of the day a weird story:
The children's series causes US children to adopt British accents and words too.
So the Americans see how it is, otherwise it's them who export their stuff.

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

#peppapig #BritishEnglish #PeppaEffect

Last updated 3 years ago
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