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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a deficit of interesting vocabulary in the USA due to the terrible education system. Words like "fortnight" are used throughout the English speaking world.[/quote] What? Words fall in/out of use all the time. Just because some English speaking countries use different words than others doesn't mean there's any kind of "deficit". It's not like we don't know what "fortnight" means. There are also some fabulous American words not heavily used outside the US - like, jalopy, varmint and chancy. [/quote] Thank you! Please let's not have this devolve to an American bashing thread. I know so many Americans with rich and varied vocabularies as well as accents. A lot of words have just fallen out of fashion; it's not as if people don't know them. Everyone is offering them up, mostly from literature--not from other English-speaking countries' vocab! Also let's not forget all the English people who say "I was sat" ...[/quote]
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