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SecondWar on 30 November 2010
Rainbow Yoshi said:

I have been pondering this subject for a few days and unfortunately I believe British English is used less even though it is the native version. Of course the Commonwealth nations do but do others use it over American English? Do non-English nations learn American English or British English? 

Between the two the differences are so minor a lot probably wont even notice but my guess is they use the american versions without realising ie program instead of programme and organization instead of organisation.

The main thing hate is how Word keeps putting all my documents into american english, it very annoying



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Gnac on 30 November 2010

So, how about them lazers?



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Reasonable on 30 November 2010
c03n3nj0 said:
KylieDog said:
c03n3nj0 said:

I honestly don't see why people care if people spell color/colour a certain way. I mean, English is bound to be different from region to region.

 

Anyhow,, the U.S has a population of about 310 million, plus Canada ( we use the same stuff don't we?) that pretty much outnumbers British English speakers by a lot.  

Unless people start counting India... 


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NKAJ on 30 November 2010

sadly its probably american english...but being the only native british english speaker in my class i can say that chicks really dig british accents...



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Buzzi on 30 November 2010

I think it's Brithis English...but really, in Italy many people's pronounciation sounds like American English, maybe even American American English...



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De85 on 30 November 2010
Gnac said:

So, how about them lazers?


Even though I'm american and usually don't mind replacing s's with z's, that's one that always bothers me as a physicist because the word laser was originally an acronym...



Rainbow Yoshi on 30 November 2010
NKAJ said:

sadly its probably american english...but being the only native british english speaker in my class i can say that chicks really dig british accents...


Do you currently live in the UK, or currently in another country?



Pyro as Bill on 30 November 2010

Do people in this thread know the difference between an accent and a language?

The world uses ENGLISH!

Not British-English or American-English or Australian English or even Chinese or Indian English.

It's just English.

Just because you drop a u or change '-re' to '-er' doesn't make it a new language.



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Farmageddon on 30 November 2010

If you google program you get 750.000.000 matches. Programme lands only 179,000,000.

So American English is much more popular. There's no denying my logic :P



Rainbow Yoshi on 30 November 2010
Farmageddon said:

If you google program you get 750.000.000 matches. Programme lands only 179,000,000.

So American English is much more popular. There's no denying my logic :P


That's because the Internet is American dominated, meaning more results for those words.