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>"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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>>Geordie wrote on Mon, 03 May 2010 07:13:35 +1000:
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>>>I've written a blog entry about American names for ingredients
>>>and what their rest-of-English-speaking-world equivalents are,
>>>it's at http://bit.ly/a8gIcv
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>>>One American friend expressed surprise that she'd never heard
>>>any of these, instead saying that all the Australian English
>>>terms were commonplace. That's not accurate, but some might
>>>be more common than others. I'd be curious for people's
>>>comments about what is commonplace and what isn't, and any I
>>>might have missed.
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>>Since we American are in the majority, one might, if one was to be
>>obnoxious, say standard English cooking terms with translations for
>>other dialects :-)
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>>James Silverton
>>Potomac, Maryland
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>>Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
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>But India, Australia, the 'English' part of Canada, and the former
>British colonies in Africa and the Caribbean speak 'Kings
>English'...it's only us in the States who speak 'Merkin'. -ginny

No. Most Anglophone Canadians speak dialects closely related to
American English. Newfoundlanders speak something which isn't much
like US English; but which is definitely not the Queen's English.

The English-speaking parts of the Caribbean speak dialects not much
like either standard British English or US English.

Australia and New Zealand speak in ways roughly similar to London-area
English; but there's been some divergence.

Indian English? Take a look at the India edition of Google News; the
vocabulary has diverged from the Queen's English.

And in some parts of Canada and New Zealand, as in some parts of the
US, there's the influence of Scots.

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