The flexibility and durability of our mother tongue is a marvel to behold. The meandering path of our regional dialects, the pride of our Queens English and the familiarity of standard BBC pronunciation all serve to create a cultural richness and security that has endued throughout the ages.

Of course unless its some Johnny foreigner who dares to add their bastardised corruption to our sacred language. They obviously ain't been fetched up right.

Phew! Just as well we're only slagging off the funny way Canadians speak, and not proper 'foreigners'.

'Cos that's offensive you know.

Those scallywags eh?

that's like "presently."

It used to mean "not now, but later." Now it usually means pretty much exactly the opposite.

"I'll be with you presently, I'm presently dealing with another customer."

'course, it could all be a conspiracy to confuse Johnny Foreigner, you know.

or...Hey, he didn't get a permit for his addition...he's been told to' unbuild ' it...........

I get a lot of Indian English at work (unsurprisingly given I work for an Indian company). I know I've mentioned it on here before, but my favourite Hinglish word is "prepone" - to bring a meeting forward in the calendar, the opposite of "postpone." It makes perfect grammatical and etymological sense, and really ought to be accepted into general English usage, I think.

Maybe he shouldn't have undemolished it without an undisallowment.

Makes more sense than antepone.

and alot more sense than Alcapone

or mascarpone

I love mascarpone, beats scoffing lithopone.........

after some frantic googling, I'll depone that it does.

I'd have let you impone on that one

It does indeed matter. Now as much as I dont bother spelling things correctly most of the time, I noticed that in the company of americans I tend to make a point to spell "colour" "colour" and not bloody "color"

All a matter of personal preference really, like if you like Canada watered down or not, do you like the Queens English watered down.. or if you want fries with that. Myself I prefer Poutine.

Oh.. and if you think healthcare is all thats different between Canadians and Americans you don't know your history, you dont understand the country at all, and you will never be happy here so you may as well go back wherever you started. I know that I wouldn't go to the UK harbouring the same impression about Scots and say .. the Welsh, or that countrys in the Common union are "all the same" If I were really that daft I'd of stayed home. Maybe I'd finnish a "Colouring book" in order to increase my IQ.

You might as well have stuck a target on your arse with that post! If you're going to get on your high horse about proper English, at least edit your posts properly!!