Member: crackberrybooks

I know an awful lot of Americans just love to hear a British accent myself included.
Just like there's an awful lot of different American accents, the South, New Englanders, Midwest, Californian esepcially since they seem to talk a whole different language in California like in the 80s you had was was called Valley Girls and they seemed to have a totally different language and vocabulary all to themselves like Totally and Rad short for Radical like that Rock Concert was Totally Rad the other night. You even heard the Valley Girl talk in the movies from the 80s. I know when I was growing up in the 60s & 70s you heard words like:
Groovy, Far Out, Space Cadet as in someone was a Space Cadet meaning they were Spaced Out or High on Drugs, The Man was anyone with authority like Police, your Parents, Teachers, etc. Of course those are just a few of the words and phrases from
the 60s & 70s. The 60s & 70s are still my favourite decades I've lived through in my lifetime.

Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 2:18 pm (EST) on Feb 16, 2010

Hi Crackberrybooks,

I own several British Paperback Editons of Stephen King books and the Art
work on the cover is way better than any of his American versions with the
possible exception of the Covers & Art work done by Michael Whelan. He worked
mainly on King's humongous 7 volume series The Dark Tower. He may also have
done some covers & Art work for some other King books too. Including the British
versions of the Stephen King books I own his books in seven different languages
other than American English, of course.

You know I very much prefer the English spellings to words like favourite or
manoeuvre for example. I work in an Medical Library for the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and we have a large subscription to an awful lot
of English Medical Journals like The Lancet, BMJ which changed it's name to
BMJ British Medical Journal British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, British Journal of Dermatology, British Heart Journal, British Journal of Ophthalmology
for example. The Library owns both the older volumes for BMJ & also for BMJ
British Medical Journal. So I'm very familiar with the many different British
spellings for the same everday words we also use here in the States as well.
I'm also a huge Doctor Who fan and fan of a lot of the Britcoms that are shown
over here on our local Public Broadcast System channels (PBS)

I prefer to spell certain words the British way instead of the American way
for example:

favourite
cancelled

are just a couple of examples off the top of my head. But you know what I'm
talking about. I've always been a huge Anglophile and have wanted to visit
England for a Holiday for years as well as wanting to live & work in England
too. My favourite accent is of course British followed by the Aussies.

Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 1:52 pm (EST) on Feb 3, 2010

Hi Crackberrybooks,

I've never heard of David Gemmell before now and I was wondering if his character
is anything like Robert. E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. I may look into some of
his books if I get an opportunity. At least that's the first thing that popped
into my head at the time. Is David Gemmell more wide known in the UK than over
here in the States?

Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 1:29 pm (EST) on Feb 2, 2010

Welcome to librarything! Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries.
Regards
Willie

posted by WillieD at 5:02 pm (EST) on Jan 26, 2010