I think I may be a British citizen by descent. What now? [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 11 answers

Why do Americans have such odd ideas about the British? [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 81 answers

How would an American pick up a British accent while in Britain? [more inside]
posted on Jul 8, 2005 - 40 answers

In the US, the first syllable of "privacy" rhymes with "eye." In the UK, it rhymes with "give." So why, when listening to an audiobook, did I hear a British reader (with a standard British dialect) pronounce it the American way? Was the reader just being weird, or is the pronunciation of "privacy" becoming Americanized? Are there any other common Brit-pronunciations that are migrating across the pond? [more inside]
posted on May 8, 2005 - 22 answers

Does anyone still get upset about split infinitives? [more inside]
posted on Oct 10, 2004 - 29 answers