Matt Soniak, the author of that article on Mental Floss (a source renowned for reliability) is definitely not biased in any way. Obviously.

This is sarcasm if you having figured it out yet (American IQ is a lot lower on average - if you need me to explain what any of the words mean, just drop me a message).

Do you realize that the spelling is the same in all regions of England, and that you are just misspelling it several times? He was initially correcting you on the fact that you said "ya" instead of "you" - perhaps you are just incapable of writing yet another word correctly?

"Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in –ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy."

I think you'll find that it isn't that we add an extra "i", but that Americans tend to be lazy enough to miss out the 'i':

"The spelling in –um continued in occasional use in Britain for a while, though that in –ium soon predominated. In the USA, the position was more complicated. Noah Webster’s Dictionary of 1828 has only aluminum, though the standard spelling among US chemists throughout most of the nineteenth century was aluminium; it was the preferred version in The Century Dictionary of 1889 and is the only spelling given in the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913. Searches in an archive of American newspapers show a most interesting shift. Up to the 1890s, both spellings appear in rough parity, though with the –ium version slightly the more common, but after about 1895 that reverses quite substantially, with the decade starting in 1900 having the –um spelling about twice as common as the alternative; in the following decade the –ium spelling crashes to a few hundred compared to half a million examples of –um."

No. Obviously not. The word is spelt "herb" - it is therefore pronounced "herb". Not "urb", as in American.

By missing out half the letters in "doughnut", lazily missing off letters in "colour" and doing something inexcusably inhumane with countless other words, I hardly think that Americans have the right to claim that they are doing everything properly.

What is the article? The debate information was left completely blank. I suppose you must mean that you've read it - so I obviously must have done? Just another example of American arrogance

Axmeister and I used to be quite the pair, but recently I haven't had a lot of time to come on here

I don't even know where to begin. People like you should be lined up and shot.

"The only two types of English accents I can differentiate are what I consider the typically British 'posh' accent, and the less refined Australian accent"

Well the clue for this one is in the name: "Australian" - Australia is a country on the other side of the world from England, and whilst they are a part of the commonwealth, they are a distinctly different country; saying that you can distinguish between the English accent and the Australian accent is no different from saying that you can differentiate between the American accent and Chinese.

The only American accents I can distinguish are those from "TEXAS!" and those from "'MERICA!"

This debate is complete bullshit. Obviously English people have the most English accent. The bizarre theory that the modern accent has evolved the most is a load of rubbish: if our language and spelling has changed less (become less of an abomination) then why wouldn't our accent?

There are variations of accents and dialects across all of Britain. To an English person American accents sound pretty much all the same, but no American person would be able to make the mistake the difference between the accent of the English 'bourgeoisie' and a Liverpudlian accent

I'm just clarifying what some of the other opinions are.

There are many reasons why it could be perceived to be so. One of the leading opinions is the view of the Roman Catholic Church, who see that it as an unnatural practice

I forgot this one

America may have the the second largest army in the world, but does that really guarantee anything? A country plagued by 16 trillion dollars, the most gun crime and the arrogant psyche that enables them too foolishly think that they could overcome the power of the UN, is surely not a country that could be of any real harm.

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHA. America really couldn't survive without the help of other countries due to its failing education system (amongst other things).

It is human nature to seek for an answer to the things that people cannot explain. Religion is often the answer to these unsolvable mysteries, and it may well be used to answer the questions that, in 100 years, will not be answered

Which war did we lose?

It shows that you have no means or knowledge of knowing how to resist and handle your food, and contributes to the idea that America is also a very stupid nation

"We're actually the largest consumer of pretty much everything"

Brilliant. So America is also a very wasteful country

"Bland... English food"

It isn't bland you crazy, uncultured fool

I am just trying to establish fairness

"You're confusing American food with fast food"

America is, however, the largest consumer of fast-food in the world - and America is the country in which America made the most fast-food.

"And fast food and American food both taste better than English food"

Obviously fast-food have their merits - but I would always choose toad-in-the-hole and other English dishes over a KFC.

"You are over 700 years older than us. If you hadn't invented more stuff in that period of time, you should be ashamed"

Still, you have about five times more people than we do, so it evens out.

"Poor military strategy"

There was no other alternative - we didn't start those battles.

"Not well long term, obviously"

Well you were a better nation when you were part of the commonwealth.

"Hur dur man that's why we have more millionaires and billionaires"

It is better to have a collection of good people of people who live in the middle of life, than to have some people making millions and others dying on the streets. England is a far less discriminative society and it is far less unfair, with lesser divides.

"Well yes. That's what friends do. Look out for one another. You were getting the shit kicked out of you by some Germans, and we helped. We're broke as fuck, you help us"

So by launching two nuclear bombs on two cities of completely innocent people, we have to pay you on a daily basis so that you can get rid of your 17 trillion pound debt? Is there even that much money on the planet? Don't be unreasonable, Chad.

"Yes, straight giving away money and resources to an ally in need was very, very immoral"

I don't really think that nuclear-bombing two innocent cities of people was what I was talking about, Chad.

"Much, much sexier women. With better teeth"

Not really that much sexier - but definitely a lot fatter than in England.

"I'm not going to comment on the "clever" argument since that depends entirely on the person"

Yet in England we have a higher average IQ than in America.

"Amazing as a nation"

Other than your military (which many disapprove of) there is not a lot of notable American qualities other than making everyone else look good.

"Vast amount of culture"

Globalisation has diminished your culture to a collection of fast-food places, whereas in England we have the beautifully psychedelic combination of amazing literature and fascinating history

"Our past slavery isn't something we should be proud of"

No, it really isn't. But the discimination posed by the slavery indicates less intelligence.

"We invented blues, rock and roll"

We invented the beatles, which sparked a lot of this and made heavy metal - which can be considered equally as good is not better.

"We invented refrigerators"

Obviously - that accounts for the most obese country on the planet.

"We invented potato chips"

That's not really an achievement.

"We invented the Internet"

No you didn't, we did.

"You were saying?"

Sorry for plagiarising axmeister, but here is just some food that we invented - and I think this far exceeds America:

Bangers and mash

Black pudding

Balti

Brown Sauce (HP Sauce)

Bubble and squeak

Cheddar cheese

Cornish pasty

Cottage pie

Cumberland sausage

Eccles cake

English mustard

Fish and chips

Full English breakfast

Gravy

Haggis

Ice cream

Jellied eels

Kendal mint cake

Lancashire hotpot

Lasagne

Lincolnshire sausage

Pancake

Parkin

Pasty

Piccalilli

Pork pie

Sausage roll

Sandwich

Scotch egg

Scouse

Shepherd's pie

Carbonated water, major and defining component of soft drinks

Sparkling wine

Spotted Dick

Steak and kidney pie

Sunday roast

Toad in the hole

Worcestershire sauce

There are also some British inventions here and here.

YOU WERE SAYING?

Yes we are ;)

You have completely ignored my argument and missed the point. We didn't conquer the Falklands, we discovered them, and then a large sum of oil was discovered and Argentina asked for them back as a consequence - and many people under the false delusion of thinking "It obviously belongs to Argentina because they are geographically closer" are wrong