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More google results: India, South Africa and Canada use the US form almost universaly, while Ireland, NZ and OZ use the British form more consistently than the UK does. Singapore is 50/50. Malta has a slight preference for the British form.
Silly poll on English language for native speakers of English
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Posted 2015-January-12, 09:04
The world would be such a happy place, if only everyone played Acol :) --- TramTicket
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Posted 2015-January-12, 11:41
Vampyr, on 2015-January-10, 11:20, said:
not that it is a generational thing since you are the same age as I and Robin not a whole lot older!
Perhaps we should have another poll to determine how many native English speakers would say "the same age as I" (ie implicitly "the same age as I am") and how many would say "the same age as me"......
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Posted 2015-January-12, 11:53
blackshoe, on 2015-January-11, 19:25, said:
I wouldn't be surprised to find that really good chess players think in terms of patterns of moves, rather than individual moves.
It depends to some extent on how sharp the position is. Most of the time, while being aware of thematic plans for a given position, it is not enough to think of "patterns", you have to come down to concrete variations.
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Posted 2015-January-12, 12:10
WellSpyder, on 2015-January-12, 11:41, said:
Perhaps we should have another poll to determine how many native English speakers would say "the same age as I" (ie implicitly "the same age as I am") and how many would say "the same age as me"......
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Posted 2015-January-12, 13:05
Bbradley62, on 2015-January-12, 12:10, said:
As a native New Yorker, I always say "the same age as I am"
As another native New Yorker, I wonder if I do the same; I will try to notice next time.
What seems natural when writing can sound, as you say "dorkish" when speaking.
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Posted 2015-April-12, 11:37
From the American Register: Scientists discover Universe isn’t growing as fast as they previously thought
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Posted 2015-April-13, 08:47
That article seems to have been written by Google Translate. E.g. "work day in the direction of your red" is presumably a translation of "red shift".
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Posted 2015-April-13, 11:10
From your list, I picked "drunk driving". If it had included "driving under the influence", "driving under the influence of alcohol" or DUI I would have picked that instead.
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