to generally be mutually intelligible between Englishmen and Americans, but a different dialect nonetheless ("British English"), which for some reason you feel necessary to use on a board dominated by speakers of American English. Perhaps because you view your casual usage of British English as a device which confers a certain elevated status upon you, and therefore acts as a way for you to signal to us that you possess an intimate familiarity with other cultures, which should cause us to hold you in high esteem.