Giok, some years ago, an American mistakenly boarded an AirNZ plane at LAX hoping to go to Oakland. He arrived in Auckland somewhat confused.

A local firm here gives away prodigous amounts of advertising stickers promoting Drury Tires. It does, a little, but they sell tyres.

Minor peeves of mine are the NOT dropping the 'H', but preceeding it with 'an', as in "An horrific accident." So common that it is accepted as correct usage, nowadays. The other is the growing practice of pronouncing grown as growun. Oddly, I've never heard anyone pronounce groan that way. Perhaps because I can't remember hearing anyone actually pronounce groan, as opposed to giving one.

EVERYONE speaks English with an accent and a dialect, even Queen Liz. She, however, has a better excuse than most, having so few English ancestors.

Little Hawk, shouldn't you in your turn be thankful to De Havilland for allowing you to develop the aircraft industry that has served you so well for so long? (You can put a ring around that, mate!)