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Mary Poppins English is my favourite kind. I am American, and I use British English for the most part. It seems so unnecessary to have American English. Plus, British English is far more olde-timey.
Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
But it's the british that is unnecessary. We made at at least a small attempt to logicize english. I spell things with a 'u' all the time on accident, but its really not necessary. Also, programme?! To us it looks all fancy, but those extra letters are just silly. And I have to say, sceptical should be pronounced septical so I don't appreciate that spelling.
Not that american english is suddenly all logical and stuff, I'm just saying, I appreciate the differences from my end.
Ahh but Ann ... you have hit on the one word where English English clearly wins over American English: Over here, PROGRAMME means a broadcast (tv or radio) - what Americans might call a show (but we tend to reserve that word for live events), or a magazine produced for a play or sporting event (the latter being an American playbill, not sure what you call the former), or a timetable or itinerary (programme of events ... the original derivation of the above, from when it just said "music by the marching band at 2pm, kick-off at 3pm, presentation of cup at 5pm); or in older usage, a radio or tv channel. PROGRAM on the other hand refers specifically to a computer program - a sequence of code - or the verb meaning to create or input this.
In American English, PROGRAM is one of the ways to refer to "a sequence of code", as in a computer program. There are others. Also, PROGRAM can refer to a TV or radio program, as the word PROGRAMME is used in the UK. It can also refer to the "magazine produced for a play or sporting event", and can be used in a . I see very little difference except for the spelling.
This thread is great, engages the ideas I've always had about Joanna. Without her incredibly poetic and powerful language, her music wouldn't be as special as it really is! As for words she uses that I have picked up - there's 'Pleiades', 'Sisyphus' 'Hydrocephalitic listlessness'...there are lots really! It's all very refreshing. Also the little stories she has, like that of Lola Montez in Have One On Me, are fascinating and they make me infatuated with little tales! Like the whole story of Ys too.