Okay, we’ll all know that the British are smarter than we are, they speak better English, and they have much cooler accents. But, just in case you’ve forgotten, here’s a fabulous David Mitchell video pointing out a couple of legitimately odd things that we do with the Queen’s English.
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Living here in the UK, I’ve become sensitive to our linguistic oddities (it helps that a few members of our church like to remind us of those), but I really do have to concede “i could care less” and “hold down the fort” as pretty nonsensical (I’m not sure I’m going to give up erb though). Great find Marc. Cheers!