I asked my buddy, a slightly more-native Californian than me* (born in Riverside). He said Northern California starts where the liberals are (of whic...

Um, "Cali"? No! Ugh! Sounds like those other states, Massachu, Michig, Io, Nebr... If inside the state, then Dork Flag = yes. Or, just not an a C...

Dick said: I can't really explain that, but I just wanted to say that I've noticed precisely the same thing. Not only that, but British English al...

They're also "taken to hospital" in England, but "taken to the hospital" in America. It's almost like "hospital" is a situation or circumstance in ...

tunawrites said: However, the comparative form using than seems to be so grandly misused, but still accepted in its misuse. What can we do? Fo...

I would put the extra "n" in front of a word starting with a vowel in the same category as the marvelous practice of adding a "r" to the ends of words...

There are two meanings, spelt differently. If he gave the keys to >them<, then "He gave them their keys" is the only correct spelli...

Dennis Bowden said: Hi folks, When I heard your discussion of West Coast and Eastern Seaboard I thought of this song: In Oz I cannot recall hearing...

I always assumed that the Eastern Seaboard and West Coast were differentiated by how and when they were populated, and thus how and when they were fir...

When I read the first sentence of your post, I thought you were headed towards a different variant — between I'm interested in what you're talking ...

I haven't seen it in any proofread text, such as print. However, I've seen this particular typo(?) in numerous emails and in blogs. It's hard to s...

I originally knew "like" only in your interjection 1; as Bob notes a synonym for "uh". Then, there was a Star Trek episode I saw that explained int...