AMERICANLISH

 

While trying to find the correct spelling for the word “usable” (able to be used) I read on an American website that “there are more people using American English than British English” – bollocks I thought, as the word INDIA repeated over and over in my mind…

So just how does the use of American English really compare to British English? Here are some rough figures:

People speaking variations of British English

Indian English (125 million)*
United Kingdom English (67 million)
Australian English (26 million)
New Zealand English (5 million)
Irish English (5 million)
Singapore English (2 million)**

Total – 230 million

*India is the most populous country at 1.4 billion people (yes, slightly ahead of China as of 2025) but it’s hard to estimate how many Indians have some degree of English literacy – 125 million is considered conservative.  **Same with Singapore (population 6 million) – estimate 2 million have some degree of English literacy

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/

 

People speaking variations of American English

US English (335 million – just the US population alone)

If we also include Canadian English (38 million) that increases the lead even further. Damn I always hate admitting Americans are right, but they got me there!

Other large countries I haven’t taken into account here include Malaysia (British English) and the Philippines (American English)

 

And how is usable spelt? – either usable or useable are both correct! (the spell checkers are wrong!)

And now I’ll make up for my anguish by including a few American memes!

 

 

 

TIME FOR SOME LOLS

 Random LOLPICS are an essential staple of internet surfing so here are some more:

 

SKATEBOARDFAHRER

 By 1942 Adolf Hitler had established himself as one of the top pro riders in the burgeoning German urban freestyle scene. He was described in Skateboarder magazine (Deutsche Edition) as "the most shredding dude over a 12-set in Berlin".  Tony Hawk would later list him as one his biggest skating inspirations.

MEME MANIA

 

Sometimes I have an uncontrollable urge to knock out some memes. Click on any of these to see them full size. Feel free to share them far and wide!

BUILD IT & THEY WILL COME

 I'm doing another strange experiment this month - if doing no posts makes no difference to the amount of hits this blog gets for the first three weeks, would doing more posts increase the hits after three weeks?

So I'm going to do more posts this month. Here are some more random images because randoms are fun!