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"Wednesday week"

Why do American and British English use different quotation marks?

If I go to a Language School, do I go to school?

Why is “accidentally” pronounced “accident-ly” instead of “accident-tal-y”?

What is the origin of "journal" to mean a mechanical shaft?

When did Magdalen return to England?

Etymology and meaning of the word "snog"

"Can" vs. "could" in asking a question [duplicate]

Must cookies contain chocolate in BrE?

Is "Most of the world does not distinguish captions from subtitles" true?

BE term for a historical type of outlaw?

Are commas considered superfluous in legal documents?

A/an hypothesis? [duplicate]

Did the expression "nothing to get hung up about" derive from "Strawberry Fields?"

Do people in Britain use this structure nowdays? Or is it considered archaic there? [closed]

Where does the word “minge” come from?

Is it true that Cockney English is disappearing? And being replaced with "Jafaican"?

Anyone for pudding?

Meaning of "handbags" in the context of a fight

What were the British equivalents of Webster's dictionary and the Simplified Spelling Board that standardized spelling and usage?