Why do we call Nissan 'niss-Anne' when the people who make it proabably say 'Ni-son'? Calling Nike 'nike' to rhyme with bike or like? When the people who make it, called it Nike to rhyme with Pikey?! Brasil, why do we call you Brazil? I don't get it. We have Euro GM but it's not called 'Opel', in Britain we call it 'Vauxhaull', but it's still a GM! Lay's, we have them, but, we don't call it Lay's, we call it 'Walker's', because we're British, and it seems we're anal about stuff like that. We get to name Cadbury because we invented that. When a GM crashes into a Nissan, we say a Vauxhall crashes into a niss-Anne.
Because we're British and Oz, Kiwiland, the Yanks and Queen's cowboy's aside the rest are all foreigners.
The rules of the English language means words are pronounced the way letters are grouped. Americans would have to blame Noah Webster for the spelling and pronunciation of American English. He felt the English language had become corrupt by the British aristocracy and he believed the people should control the language.
I think I saw her in a stage show when I was 18, she did this trick with a cucumber you wouldn't believe
They're all wrong about how "Nike" should be pronounced. It's Greek for "victory" and should sound like nee-kay
Some words are pronounced differently to what you think because of the country of origin. Two examples : 1) Stihl Chainsaw. We say, "Still" but it's, "Stiel"(German) 2) Thule car roof bars. We say, "Thull" but it's, "Too Lay" (Swedish)
Bollocks. Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Because Lucas Electric Co., Ltd. makes their refrigerators, too.
I want to know why Brits insist on driving on that side of the road, and why they have not ditched the clearly dysfunctional parliamentary system for our far superior and more efficient two party controlled bicameral Congress with its emphasis on committee autonomy and the filibuster which continues to show the world what real cooperative and deliberative lawmaking looks like. How can you not stare into the eyes of leaders like Mitch McConnell and see the inherent institutional inspiration that got him there.
Why do the English drive on the left? England is much much older than America. Even the Romans drove on the left. From fighting on spiral staircases and going clockwise round a roundabout on the road, it's logical and practical to drive on the left. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Why-do-the-British-drive-on-the-left/ If you're gonna get a country to be awkward on purpose, you can count on America. Same with dates. You have logical steps with measures and weights. Stone, lbs and oz's as an example going in weight order. Second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year in time order. So you would have day, month, year. But not in America. It's like saying, I'm 11st, 4 oz's and 3 lbs. What time is it, it's 10am 12 seconds and 58 minutes.
English because Tea AND Watership Down (Cartoon of course). Now that's a kids movie! When I lived in Lithuania I kept having to explain Tea is not simply a hot drink with a little milk in it. It's a cure all medicine to control my homicidal mania, that and bacon.
