Good one! Ironically, the Brits would be very blessed if the US Air Force capture the bloody islands and make them the 52nd States or so, if you look at the ground realities. In that case just imagine what sorry face (needless to say it is already so for decades)Prince Charles will put up for us! When I came here to the US for the first time, I had so many pronunciation problems... for one thing English was itself a foreign language to me. All the correct pronunciations I could speak happened to be British. Regarding pronunciation, the Yankies are rather very helpful (probably because they themselves hear enough about it from the Brits)! I still pronounce Schedule the British way, just because the American is rather hard for me. I hear so many times in my office that my pronunciation is closer to the British. Poor Bush! I heard him say Nucular myself, too. That's nothing. When I went to Mumbai, the folks there told me I had an accent in English. I could swear to death I heard their strong Tamil, Telegu, Mumbai accent myself. It made me jump up frantically!