re: I find British English more natural than American English.

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Tell us you're a pretentious frick without telling us you're a pretentious frick.

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I'm really not. I'm very approachable and easy to get along with.

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I'm really not. I'm very approachable and easy to get along with.

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That sounds exactly like something a pretentious frick would say.

how do you feel about the metric system?

You will no doubt be dismayed to learn that British English is being supplanted world wide by American English. In fact, the English will be entirely speaking our version of the language at the beginning of the next century. American culture has spread to nearly every place on the globe and our language is leading the way.

International business is conducted in American English. So is communication in travel and in emergencies world wide. For example, after one of the Ukrainian attacks on a Russian ship in the Black Sea, a broadcast for help from the stricken Russian vessel was in American English,

“Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! We are sinking!”

We are sinking!

Because we conduct trade on a global scale, we have no choice but to use the metric system. We are gradually moving away from the imperial system. The metric system is taught in every American school and is the international standard for science and business.