B.E. vs. A.E. - Post/Mail
Hi! I'm a non-native English speaker, I've been studying English for a good number of years, and I've always focused on and preferred British English over American English, whether in spelling or prononciation.
Recently, I have embarked on a pen-pal relationship with an American, I have therefore found myself encountering - and sometimes even using them myself - variants of the words I gradually became used to adopt. At a certain point, I noticed something that striked me.
There are words like "post box" and "mailbox", there are "postman" and "mailman", but then there only are "air mail", "fan mail", and "snail mail", no "air post" at all nor did I manage to find anything about it on the Internet. Has this British-like "version" ever been used? (And the others, "fan post" and so on). If not, how is its absence in the vocabulary to be explained? The entire thing is rather vexing me...
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anonymous Recently, I have embarked on a pen-pal relationship with an American, I have therefore found myself encountering - and sometimes even using them myself - variants of the words I gradually became used to adopt. That's understandable because you can adapt your language use to what the other person is familiar with. Languages are tools and like other tools, there is more than one way to use them.
- anonymous Recently, I have embarked on a pen-pal relationship with an American, I have therefore found myself encountering - and sometimes even using them myself - variants of the words I gradually became used to adopt.
- That's understandable because you can adapt your language use to what the other person is familiar with.
- Languages are tools and like other tools, there is more than one way to use them.
- Like how a knife is not just for chopping food.
- anonymous something that striked me.
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anonymousRecently, I have embarked on a pen-pal relationship with an American, I have therefore found myself encountering - and sometimes even using them myself - variants of the words I gradually became used to adopt.
That's understandable because you can adapt your language use to what the other person is familiar with. Languages are tools and like other
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