other word origins and not the naive "we built the world British attitude" 2. The irresistible temptation for English to inject their unwelcomed opinion to criticize 99 percent of the time. 3. Beginning every sentence with "You Yanks always"... Really? Only half the county were Yanks two hundred years ago stop already 4. The British Museum. A collection of all the UK's exploits and lootings. 5. Why not be proud of your flag. Move to another country if you not like your own. 6. There is no point for this thread. You see? Rich Interestingly, words being pronounced with or without the "h" is partially locality based (NYC folks typically drop the "h") and partially age based (&gt;60 tend to drop the "h"). In my case, my folks were from Booklyn and pronounced "human" as "uman". It's all in the area with which they both grew up in (they are in their mid/late 70?s). The spelling of the words "wrong" is the difference between British English and American English. For what it is worth, I have to say.. Zed? Really.. C'mon now.. that just being pretentious. Like the author's irritation drawn by their interpretation of Americans dropping the letter "h" to pronounce "herb" as "erb", pronouncing the last letter of the alphabet as "Zed" doesn't impress anyone. While I agree with the sense of patriotism, we US folks only have 250+ years of nationalism to draw upon. Give us another 600+ years to catch up, and I would say that