I recently purchased MS Office XP. During the start up thingy it asked me to choose my language.
'German' was accompanied by a nice little German flag,
'French' was accompanied by a French flag.....
'Italian'.......well you get the point....
Next to "English" was an American flag!
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I once met a young lady, from NY, in a bar in Hawaii who was astounded that we spoke "American" too. She also wanted to know if we also had Christmas on 25 December "or did we wait for it to snow?"
Having watched a bit of American sports, I want to know if "winningest" is really a word? eg: "They are the most winningest team in the NFL"
Could they not just be the "team with the most wins"?
But if Hollywood can re-write history eg: Pearl Harbour, U571 and Saving Private Ryan why not start on the language too.
