Mercury- the element.? what family does it belong to? origin of the name? cost? discovered by? when? any interesting facts??? need info now for report!!! thanx!!!
Yet even in its spoken form, English is weird. Itâs weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet.
1 . Canadian English is an odd duck, a weird amalgam of American English and our British roots. Throw in some minor influences from First Nations languages, French and other immigrant tongues and you've got yourself a quirky variant. 2  Canadian spelling keeps the 'u' in words like honour, colour and valour. Americans don't.