Another along the lines of the old colloquialisms thread:

My ears perk up at differences in accents, uses of language and the like. we've had some wonderfully fun discussion of such. Lately, I've been hearing what Americans call aluminum pronounced as ALOO min yam, pronounced as aloo MINI yam on BBC-America. So I went to my trusty dictionary and sure enough, there was a Brit spelling which included the extra "i" which we don't have over here, so it is aluminium and that pronunciation fits.

Now, one other I would like to ask about to get the ball rolling (where did that expression come from?) over here we have a KAWN tro versee (controversy), yet, same spelling and I hear kawn TRAH vesee on Brit tv, with the latter "r" dropped. Is there a different spelling for this one, too?

Let's have some more fun, eh? Pedants and scholars on your mark, set, go!