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The [[Celestial Toymaker]] asked [[Charlotte Pollard]] about possible code words to a puzzle he'd set for her: "Do you know how many four-letter words there are in the English language? How many in all languages? Approximately 400,000." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'') | The [[Celestial Toymaker]] asked [[Charlotte Pollard]] about possible code words to a puzzle he'd set for her: "Do you know how many four-letter words there are in the English language? How many in all languages? Approximately 400,000." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'') | ||
The language was used both in [[Great Britain]] and in the [[United States of America]], but each culture had their own variations of certain words or phrases. The letter 'Z' was pronounced "zee" in America and "zed" in Britain, ([[TV]]: ''[[Vengeance on Varos]]'') while words like "grey/gray" and "checkerboard/chequerboard" had different spellings. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit]]'') Additionally, the English and Americans had different words for the same thing, such as the "bumper" or "fender" of a car. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[1963: The Space Race]]'') | |||
[[American English]] was also a wholly different [[dialect]] to [[Oxford English]]{{fact}} or [[Cockney English]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') [[Accent]]s also differed between [[Scottish accent|Scottish]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') and [[Northern English]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') or, outside of the [[UK]], between [[New Zealand English|New Zealand ("Kiwi") English]], and [[South African English|that which spoken by South Africans]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Comet's Tail (short story)|The Comet's Tail]]'') | |||
[[Shanquis]] was [[Terraform|terraformed]] by English-speaking [[human]]s. The terraforming device was left online after the humans on the planet died out, allowing anyone who spoke English to control the structure of Shanquis. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code]]'') | [[Shanquis]] was [[Terraform|terraformed]] by English-speaking [[human]]s. The terraforming device was left online after the humans on the planet died out, allowing anyone who spoke English to control the structure of Shanquis. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code]]'') | ||
After [[World War II]], [[Winston Churchill]] began writing a history of the English-speaking peoples. The earliest volume was about the period of [[Julius Caesar]]'s invasion of [[Great Britain|Britain]] in the [[BC|1st century BC]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living History (audio story)|Living History]]'') | After [[World War II]], [[Winston Churchill]] began writing a history of the English-speaking peoples. The earliest volume was about the period of [[Julius Caesar]]'s invasion of [[Great Britain|Britain]] in the [[BC|1st century BC]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Living History (audio story)|Living History]]'') | ||
