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Oh yes, when Americans are playing American abroad, they're usually directed (or hired in the first place) to play brazen, crush hands with...

This seems like a good time to say that the woman in the British dialect link is butchering my native people's speech as well:...

I guess the same way "Tennis" is now a French word that comes from an English word that comes from a morphed French word....

Meanwhile, the song is presenting "Toiletten" as an Anglicism when I have to imagine it's from French....

Speaking of mph, I assume Australia and the UK will stop the backward habit of driving on the left. I mean, 121 countries do the opposite....

Seriously, tipping is a custom that comes from Northern America and should be kept there....

I think Americans should just except that tipping will become a quaint custom of country towns that people will travel to to see the...

PS: Viaggero -- I think Diana's talking about a side question, which is Boston Commons/Common. Either way, as you say, there would be no...

Thus, it is "I am going to Symphony this evening," as if the Boston Symphony Orchestra were the world's only existing symphony orchestra....

Actually, I'm assuming they're not the same Perkins Hall, though I actually don't know. My Perkins built up your leg muscles. If it's the...

And "Halls" on college campuses will generally have the definite article, I think. I once lived in Perkins Hall. ...

Jeremy, I'm curious, did you actually find in your "mix" names of US zoos that don't take the article in that construction? I can't...

All they've managed to find is a 'preference'...

I knew it! I knew there’d be something too good to resist. Every post brings such a fresh pile that the stuff I considered saying before...

Ha ha ha -- "Where ARE you?" wasn't about your response time, good Lord. You're responding just as quickly as I am, which is apparently a...