or if that doesn't work, emigrate!

I see what you did there! :)

I honestly thought that I'd rather gouge out my own eyes than ask this question, but do you have a blog detailing your experiences in this area?

Mod parent insightful please :)

Firstly, I don't own that, or any, Wikipedia article, secondly, I said:

to differentiate engine-powered mowers from human-powered mowers, which are obviously not a means of conveyance, a carriage or transport.

In summation, if you can travel somewhere on your mower, it's a vehicle. Clear enough?

There's no such thing as accent-free, I presume you're referring to received pronunciation

If by that you mean "destroy regional variety", this was once a favourite pastime of the English government, but I for one am glad to see it in decline. I'm a great fan of regional dialects, within the United Kingdom and without, however I do believe that _standard_ English should be decided by the English, specifically in Oxford, for historical reasons, but maybe I'm just old fashioned.

Disclaimer: I'm not english

As far as the differing rules for pronunciation, in my experience Americans have a tendency to 'over-pronounce', particularly vowels, which to a British ear can make the speaker sound, erm, not so mentally agile :)

Not that I propagate such stereotypes, I've always just put it down to the large percentage of Americans over the last ~300 years for whom English wasn't a native language.

Speaking as a non-yank "Did you brush your teeth already?" sounds terribly American to me, the closest I'd go is "Have you already brushed your teeth?".

I thought just the same!

And I was trying to point out that if you have a petrol(or diesel) powered machine to mow your lawn, it _is_ a vehicle.

And even if you disagree with that, "the efficiency of vehicles" is a completely meaningless phrase, as the efficiency of vehicles are as varied as their means of propulsion.

a lawnmower is a vehicle? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle

'whoops', my mistake on the mirror, I think that I was thinking of the telegraph or something...
I was raised in a guardian (and observer ;) household, but even their reporting (particularly on science/technology) has annoyed me too many times to want to pay for it any more...

I wouldn't classify the mirror, daily mail, guardian or independent as tabloids. But maybe that's just me...

It seems to me that that post suggests that Whedon, Gaiman and Tolkien are from the same country (the USA), which would be misleading as two of them are British, just in case anyone reading this didn't know :)