Test your knowledge of British vs American English! Take this fun pronunciation quiz to see which version you speak.

This is a brief warning that you may involuntarily change the way you talk about heating up food. Proceed at your own risk. Nigella Lawson's pronunciation of the word "microwave" is causing a stir on ...

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans, Britain has spent centuries simmering into a confusing toponymic soup of counties, cities and castles. Over time, ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Though they technically are the same language, British English and American English have scores of differences—from the small, like the extra “U” in “colour,” to the large, like the very different ...

Words with the letters 'ed' at the end are usually regular past tense verbs like 'started' or adjectives like ‘confused’. The ...

By Laura Roberts 28 October 2010 • 12:39pm The changing sounds of modern English pronunciation is being tracked by a new project carried out by the British Library. Members of the public are being ...