Good Lord! I'm sorry, all, but the United States and Britain separated quite a few years ago, and therefore our languages have been changing independently. It's really a little irritating when every other post is "Another country's people don't talk like I do; I hate it!"
(AlfishKK, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 18:05, 2 replies)

this would be fine
if you didn't persist in referring to it as 'English'.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 19:13, closed)

Ok then
Why do Americans insist on emphasising the last syllable of French verbs such as porter?

Some of the film posters for Prêt-à-Porter showed a phonetic spelling as "pret a port-AY". When most Frenchies give least emphasis to the last syllable of such infinitives.

So has French changed independently of this American linguistic snapshot as well, or are Americans just a bit ignorant?
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:01, closed)