If you haven’t had your fill of absurdity, here’s a link to Mother Hen’s most recent post on British and American English, which explores a few differences.
Notes from the U.K.
Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
Notes from the U.K. 
Awww thanks, Ellen! You are a peach… hope your readers enjoy it! :-) xx MH
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I did the initial link wrong, so let’s hope they find you. It’s fixed now.
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No worries – I have approved the link, so it should work now… :-) Thanks again, my friend. You are so kind to allow me a sliver of space on your blog! xx MH
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It’s a pleasure.
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Your link is not working, Ellen. Not that it matters, a simple copy/paste will do!
Do you find it absurd that she wrote the piece or that these differences in the English language are so absurd?
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Thanks for letting me know. I’ve fixed the link. That’ll teach me to throw things onto the blog without checking. And yes, it’s the differences she highlights that are absurd.
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Look forward to reading it – esp. as you know, I had to teach both versions while I lived in Europe! In the meantime, I hope you can come up with 10 things above love, because I’ve just nominated you for the Love in 10 Sentences challenge: https://ellesuperstar.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/burns-like-fire/. Sorry, had to do it, even though I hate these things.
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Oh, argh. I can’t do it. Really. Honest. Can’t, won’t, refuse to, would rather eat liver than.
No, that last one’s a lie. There are limits. But I want to keep a tight focus in the blog, which means not dashing off in other directions. So with all loving thanks, I ain’t going to do it.
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Off to check it out now. :)
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It was a great post! When you posted the link I re-read it and it’s just as good the second time around.
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That’s wonderful.
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Then there are regional variations within the UK……when I moved to a rural area the other side of the country from the big urban metropolis I grew up in, it was hard enough to understand the accent, let alone the weird words they threw at me.
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I’m still struggling to identify–or even sort out–the regional accents. It’s funny how Americans tend to think of the British all having one accent. Of course, the British tend to think of Americans the same way, I guess.
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I think most of us can probably differentiate a Southern accent from “the usual” American accent LOL, but anything more exact is probably lost on us.
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Understandably. We don’t compress as many accents into a small place as you do, but we do, most definitely, have regional and ethnic variations.
I once listened to a group of white women from across the South tease each other about their accents. Northerner that I am, I couldn’t hear the differences, although they were cracking up about them.
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I can relate to that, actually. People might think there is only 1 Scouse (Liverpool) accent, but in fact there are many variations depending on which specific area you are from, and some of those ‘areas’ are literally only a couple of miles from each other. I used to be able to identify them – when I lived there, but not now. Now I can differentiate maybe 3 based on broadness of accent rather than any of those subtler clues.
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There’s got to be a whole lot of history tied up in those accents.
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Thanks for sending me over. I looked around and decided to follow her.
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