The other day on the news they were talking about Microsoft's patent abuse. Except they weren't talking about "patents" they were discussing "pay-tents".
It turns out long vowels are more popular here than short vowels (or wee vowels, as they have in Scotland). I've also learned the British have a problem with too much "mee-thane" instead of "methane" and women have something called "ee-strogen" and when that runs out they go through "the mee-nopause".
It makes you understand what Moses was talking about in Genesis:
7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11).
Which is why tonight you may need a pronunciation guide to the Oscars, depending on which side of the Atlantic you're watching from.
The movie Baybel is popular over here, but the movie Babel may win the Oscar over there.
