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vocabulary - Does the idiom «to cross the pond» exist? - English . . . A similar idiom exist in Australasia viz "across the ditch" referring to the Tasman Sea The Pacific Ocean is sometimes referred to as the "big pond" presumably by analogy with the North Atlantic Interesting that to emphasize a small linguistic or cultural difference the large physical separation viz an ocean is referred to by a small analogue viz a pond or ditch The opposite would also
word request - Whats the name of the game of throwing stones to the . . . 7 There's a game in which a flat stone is thrown to the surface of a pond, river, etc so that it starts bouncing across the water How do native English speakers call this game? Are there any rules of this game? For example, in Russia, when as a kid I used to play it, it was forbidden to bend the body to the surface of the water when throwing
When making a presentation, do I use slides or foils? I have never heard "foil" in this context, and I used to work for a company that made those little infrared remote pointer controller doohickeys (US English, though, so maybe them folks across the pond are even stranger than I thought )
Support or Root for. . . ? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange The same can be found here, and the OED (the 2nd edition, from the late 20th century) only mentions that root for is American in origin, which would imply that it had spread across the pond since The ODE (now Lexico) also remains silent on the issue, meaning it's probably attested in BrE
Difference between ä , ɒ , and ɑ - English Language Learners . . . Across the pond, Received Pronunciation British and other dialects don't merge "father" and "bother" vowels like that, thus you get ɒ to accommodate (by the way, ɒ is the rounded version of ɑ ) Which transcription is "correct" would depend on the dialect of focus, in this case American English