Twas just an example I speak English no modifiers and as I say find some of the jingoism rather silly as if anyone today spoke the original English or if there were one strain of it that is ipso facto better than the others Yes there are differences and they are interesting to look at which is the point of this article but people shouldn t read too much into them English everywhere is pretty similar as far as these things go BTW once I worked at an international TV broadcaster and one of the American producers would often encounter unfamiliar words he would inevitably say That must be Briddish English Nope it s just that your vocabulary skills are astonishingly weak for a so called journalist I should have said The lesson I took apart from the obvious one that some real doofuses get to be in positions of power was that people tend to assume differences where they don t necessarily exist