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May 24, 2008 | 3:41 am

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Originally Posted by sfosenkid

Feels like the tail wagging the dog. These people should wake up and realize that it's not 1600 any more and the US is quite bigger than all these "british queens english" countries combined.

I am in BOM at the moment and I can assure you that there are far more non-American English speakers on this planet than the other way round.
Whether they all speak "Queens" English is another story. And I don't think most of them look up or down to anyone.

Let's take the best of both worlds. At home we enjoy a view of Sydney Harbour from our living room but we are having candy and cookies and not biscuits and lollies for afternoon tea.

But I agree with the OP in the respect that even after years of living in the US I couldn't get used to calling the main course an entrée.

Last edited by DownUnderFlyer; May 25, 2008 at 12:01 am Reason: Fixed formatting of quote