All ‘single-language’ sections deal with items pertinent to that particular language - most of the points are covered in the American-English and English-American sections. More items will be added as and when they are picked up in conversation or brought to the web-editor’s attention by e-mail or otherwise. Billion has fewer noughts in some languages than others - 9 (am.,fl.,fr.) vs 12 (du.,en.) Generally: most people in the Netherlands learned ‘English’ by watching American sub-titled films and series, thus use a different grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. Native Dutch speakers should look out for grey / gray, -ise / -ize, -our / -ur. Tongue twisters - http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm |