There are many regulations that will no longer apply and nothing has been done to replace them. Dangerous times ahead for most of us but Brexit benefits for some.
@KT53 you must have a better ear than many others, because Kiwis and Canadians are often confused as Aussies or Americans respectively. I've heard that both nations get quite miffed about that. The old saying Brittain and America, two countries divided by a common language springs to mind. I have heard it said that many American spellings were alternatives in old English, and were deliberately chosen by the colonists, as they wanted to be different. We need to remember that many in America came from Ireland due to the potato famine, and a lot more came from various central European countries to escape religious persecution, so a real mixture.
Kids these days... My oldest boy asked to look at my phone this evening to see the photos from a day out we had last weekend. I said fine, let me do the passcode for you, he said don't worry I know it and walked off with it He's five and has only seen me key it in a couple of times. So much for security...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@B3 Either one, apparently, they're both the past participle of 'spell', although 'spelled' is more common in the US.
But wasn't it Shakespearian to use 't' (or even just 'd') on the end of participles instead of 'ed' - the times they were a changing. Wouldn't it in the past have been spoken as spell-ed, then contracted to 'spelt' - I bet the old guard couldn't handle the youngsters doing that to the language.
But they don’t all sound the same @steveTu … the US accents and colloquialisms vary hugely … think of the voices of the Deep South compared with those of Philadelphia, Texas, New England or the Catskills.
But they do to me Dove - I (think) I can tell an American from an Australian - so irrespective of underlying regional variant, they sound American or Australian to me. If you compare that to the UK, that would be like saying that someone can hear an underlying British accent from people from Belfast or Glasgow or Bodmin or Liverpool or Manchester - but I don't hear that commonality. I hear the same language (with regional variants), but not a common sound.
Being quite dependent on subtitles but still with a reasonable amount of hearing, it amuses me to see if I can guess the accent with the sound off. I often get it right. I think it's the way the lips move to make the vowel sounds.
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The old saying Brittain and America, two countries divided by a common language springs to mind. I have heard it said that many American spellings were alternatives in old English, and were deliberately chosen by the colonists, as they wanted to be different. We need to remember that many in America came from Ireland due to the potato famine, and a lot more came from various central European countries to escape religious persecution, so a real mixture.
New Zealand vowel sounds are different and sometimes non existent as in Nzlund
But they do to me Dove - I (think) I can tell an American from an Australian - so irrespective of underlying regional variant, they sound American or Australian to me. If you compare that to the UK, that would be like saying that someone can hear an underlying British accent from people from Belfast or Glasgow or Bodmin or Liverpool or Manchester - but I don't hear that commonality. I hear the same language (with regional variants), but not a common sound.