Comparison of American and British English Puns

I do that a lot.

For example:

"My favourite color is green."

Measure weather in Celcius but body temperature in Fahrenheit.

Using both inches and centimeters.

I am quite tired that England and America ( Hollywoo(d) for example depicts Vikings as brutal savages who just wanted to rape and pillage, as it is not true at all.

Every help would be appreciated!

Thank you all for your contribution!

Hello everyone!

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I figured it's Russian related :)

What's the word for 'информатика' (a school subject) in American English and British English?

Computing? computer science? IT? computer classes? computers? computer skills? programming?

Thanks!

I am currently preparing my PhD thesis for final submission and I find myself becoming frustrating with the notes I've been receiving from proofreaders. I am a native English speaker from Canada, meaning my written English is a blend of American and British spellings. I spell "colour" with a U but "analyze" with a Z (which, incidentally, I usually pronounce as "zed", but not always). Proofreaders and reviewers tend to pick up on this and chide me that I should be more consistent in choosing American or British spellings.

While I generally just publish in British English, for some reason I feel strongly about publishing my thesis in my native dialect. While I'm sure I'd have no problem publishing in Canadian English at a Canadian university, my university is in Hong Kong (where both British and American spellings are common, although I believe British English is the official standard).

Am I just being stubborn? Has anyone else published their thesis in a non-American and non-British dialect of English? Has anyone published their thesis in a dialect of English other than their own? Do Australians get as frustrated by this as I do?

P.S. The real kicker is that my research is related to linguistics, so being forced to follow prescriptivist rules is especially frustrating.

*evolved

Could someone from, for example, Portugal communicate with and understand someone from Brazil with no relative difficulty?

Edit: *standard instead of pure

Prior to advances in transportation, communication, education, the rise of the nation state, etc., would 240 years have historically split one spoken language into two separate ones? Are there examples of another modern language that has definitively split into two separate languages in about the same number of years?

So something that I've noticed is that the pronunciation of the vowel sound /æ/ is different in most dialects of American English than in Received Pronunciation and some other dialects of English.

In the word cat, for instance, the /æ/ sound in the middle is identical in both AE and RP. But in the word can, it is not the same at all. In AE, the /æ/ sound seems to change whenever it's placed before an nasal, such as /n/, /m/, or /ŋ/.

I have been trying like hell to find any kind of literature or explanation on this phenomenon, to no avail. I can't even find a way to write it in IPA. Can anyone help me out with this?

Can/will something be done with this? /r/octopathtraveller (here) /r/octopathtraveler (there) both exist and there doesn't seem to be any direct connection between the two. (There's also /r/octopath which seems to link here, sometimes).

I think having both of these subreddits exist might cause issues in the future when the game comes out and subscriber numbers go much higher up. If the two subreddits do combine it could also be good to combine elements from both so it doesn't just feel like a direct abandonment, maybe the header from /r/octopathtraveller and the page CSS from /r/octopathtraveler (since the default reddit style is ok at best).

Native English speakers, I was wondering if you can tell when someone's not a native speaker if they mix British and American English in their fics, if you even notice when it's being mixed, and if it's distracting or even annoying in any way.

Like, I learnt English in school, where British English was taught. Practice came from watching American movies, reading fanfictions etc. Now, I'll type colour and gas station in the same sentence*.* In one fic I'll write canceled, in another I'll go for cancelled. I mix these expressions wildly because I just picked up some words along the way and now I'll use them all because sometimes I don't even know if something is British or American English. I know they're both correct, but I remember one time in English class in school I used film and movie as synonyms because I thought it'd be nice not to have to write the same word every time and just used them as synonyms, but the teacher told me not to mix them because one is British and the other American English, haha.

This is not something I'm worried or self-conscious, not at all. I'm just curious if you, as readers, even notice when someone does that, if other non-native speakers do the same, and what the general opinion on it is.