Emily Brewster: Right. Now that it's 280 characters, things have changed. I feel like they've changed pretty dramatically, but it used to be, to meet that 140 character designation, it could be really challenging. That medium really required brevity in ways that I think affected the languag...
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A.Because they found British English hard to speak.B.Because they found British English hard to spell.C.Because they wanted to have their own language and government.D.Because foreign settlers wanted them to change their language.(3)Why do Americans use the word "meter" i...
Words,words, wordsBritish and American English are different in many ways. Thfirst and most obvious① way is in the vocabulary. There arhundreds of different words which are not used on the other sidethe Atlantic, or which are used with a different meaning. Somethese words are well known-...
It seemed to be a high school setting and I was up to my former ways. Trolling the teacher, giving them hell, then pissing them off worse by acing the tests. Taft was handing out test results as me and a couple people around me launched paper airplanes when he wasn't looking. The ...