It's a borrowed word from French, where adjectives agree. There a nice little Lord Peter Wimsey story where he catches a French person out this way.

Oh, after so long I'd assumed you'd have had to alter pronunciation at times to avoid not being understood or because you were 'linguistically soft'....

Another one - the World Cup (no stress on first word, please) after next will be held in Qatar, do the Americans really pronounce that 'Cutter' ? ('Cudder')

Not this one.

I've heard it said Cutter, I didn't know what they were saying, but I've also heard it rhyme with guitar, How is it said?
I am told at home (UK) I have a bit of an American accent, but after a couple of weeks it disappears, I think it's more of going back to a more sing song Welsh accent at home where here (California) You go up at the end of the sentence, so thats where my accent differs here I think, more so if I'm working. They understand me fine usually, although I have asked for things in Spanish occasionally to be understood

I just took this from my own OED; quoting from it: ‘blonde and blond correspond to the feminine and masculine’.
You may have an abridged version, because when I was at school the OED was the standard and this convention was the way we all learnt it from the Oxford Dictionary.

With regard to apostrophes, I use them to form the genitive and in contractions, however I still use single quotes aka ‘inverted commas’ to denote material in direct quotations in the original and British way. (Only the opening mark is actually and inverted comma, the closing mark is an angled apostrophe: e.g. He shouted ‘Stop’ as the train pulled away.

Rather than my continuing, why don't you see Wiki in regard to that and other forms of British punctuation, such as the full stop outside of quoted material, unless the punctuation is important to its meaning, for instance as with an interrogation point.

In addition, there is our use of the full stop with abbreviations, which follow the rules of most other European nations, but not America. (Example: Dr stands for Doctor, whereas Dr. stands for Drive, etc.)

You are not talking about the military garrison cap, are you?

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ey+joke&page=9

See post #123

I hadn't heard it called that, but Yes, I suppose (I had to look it up)

Here's an odd one about British and American pronunciation.
Hover.
Plover.
I've heard Americans say "huvver" for hover. I don't know if that is common or not. Meanwhile British folks say "pluvver" for plover .. ??

Yes to the huvver and I say plover.

We probably say it just to be contrary.

... I certainly have a care deficit going on regarding this language topic.


I can't seem to put my finger on it but .... why is this thread like -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc

or even



I wonder if the Romans ever said "Britanni hi non loquor bene".

Yup. I need to come up with strategy to use those two words MUCH more frequently. Two can play at the contrary game.

I rhyme hover with cover and plover with over....don't really know what pronunciation rule that's supposed to follow or why it was taught that way. . I've never heard it as "pluvver". Why is "through" pronounced "threw" and cough said as "coff" while rough is said as "ruff"? No hard and fast rules which must make it very difficult for foreigners to learn (no, not English foreigners).

You forgot about 'bough'