Discussion Groups / British English / January 2005

Hello to everybody!
I just studied William Blake at school in English Literature (I'm an
Italian student) and then I listened a song written by Loreena McKennitt
called Lullaby and I discovered that the words are taken from a Blake poem.

Thought I'd start a new thread on Briticisms which have been (mostly)
displaced by Americanisms.  Can you think of any more?  Or point to
questionable items?
Accumulator:    car battery

What do you call to internet broadcasting system in U.K or U.S.A.
In Korea. A new media called "internet broadcasting" was produced
in four or five years ago. In this media, we can see or heard their
own messages all days. The broadcasting is produced by ASX

Why does one say "the book of Job" and not "the book of Job's"?
What about "a reader of Shakespeare" and "a reader of Shakespeare's" –
are both correct?
"A friend of John" or "a friend of John's"?

Because I'm retired , I follow the course of English ( my native language is
Dutch).
For homework, we must to correct a lot of sentences. For example:
    wrong

Could/should I use "Dear Madam/Sir" instead of "Dear Sir/Madam" ?
I am writing an email to a recruitment agency. I know the e-mail will probably
be opened and read by a female employee (she was pointed out to me by another
employee), but I don't know her name. The email address is ...

Here is a sentence:
Yet it needed the song of those cicadas to break a white-haired prisoner's
heart...
How to understand "yet" here ? I am not sure at all... Could someone help ?

a newspaper article I read recently mentioned the weblog of a soldier in
Iraq who posted an letter by his commanding officer. In this letter, the
officer used the phrase 'leaving the Queen's service', although I
assumed that he must have been American (all references where clearly ...

I've just heard about a forthcoming series on BBC Radio 4 called
Word4Word, which "sets out to capture the way the local ways we speak
are changing" -- how's that for a clumsy start?
Here's some further description about it:

I NEED A TEACHER OF ENGLISH IN BARCELONA.

A happy, healthy and prosperous New year to all. May all your dreams
come true except for the nightmares.

Can someone explain what "Defunct" means? As in
http://www.defunctparks.com/...

I still like my first output best:  Who'd heed 'hood
HUD head had hoed, hawed, & hid his hod?
Re: Cyd sighed & sawed, sued sad sod, & sowed said
seed.

I am in a theatre production that requires me to use a cockney accent
any suggesting on how to use one? my current accent is western U.S
american. if anyyone has suggestions i would greatly appreciate them
thanks!  :twisted

Hi-ya all,
I am trying to write something with a deep cockney accent, does anyone
have any comments on this:
"I used ter go ter clubs, It were the sixties and there were so many