You crazy yanks

Hi Mod, Yeah, Briterican knows that one. You should see the reproachful looks he gets in our D&D sessions any time his character tries to utilise magical 'erbs. Some thoughts on American English; I think that a lot of Brit's are necessarily scornful of Americanisms. Often this is unfair. Many US usages are actually British usages that died out over here, whilst persisting in America (Fall for Autumn for instance). It's pretty much guaranteed that any Brit complaining about US English will routinely use Americanisms without realising it; swamp, range and bluff (as terms for stretches of land) are all American in origin, but none receive the scorn that some Americanisms attract.I reccomend Bill Bryon's Made in America for a hugely enjoyable guide to American English.

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One that has been puzzling me; recently, whilst watching HBO's brilliant drama The Wire (an amazing piece of work, anyone who hasn't seen it; what are you doing here on this forum? Go watch The Wire immediately!) I noticed an odd pronunciation of the word permit (the noun, as in an official document which grants you permission to do something). The actors were pronouncing it per-MIT, with the emphasis on the second syllable. Is this an east coast usage? Briterican assures me that in Texas, the pronunciation is PER-mit, just as in the UK.Anyone?Mutate and Survive

Hi Larni,We are based in Leicester.Leicester doesn't have a dialect so much as a speech defect.Mutate and Survive