rmorrison1116 wrote:
Cars do not run on petroleum, they run on fuels extracted or distilled from petroleum such as GASoline, or a highly refined form of kerosene referred to as diesel, or propane, all of which come from crude oil extracted from the rocks below, thus the name from the Latin words, Petra (rock) and Oleum (oil). Based on this I'd say America has a better grasp of the English language than the British do.
Ouch, rmorrison! America is not the home of the English language as many think. At college and university we study English: Shakespeare, Dickens and other British writers along famous American writers. To accuse the English of not understanding their own language, based obviously on a few idioms, is outrageous. Get over it, we speak our version of their language, just like the Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans and many other nationalities do.