Peach

In the Tatoeba forum, Pfirsichbaeumchen, "Little Peach Tree," a German girl, associates my Canada with Britain.  It seems that she is an Anglophile like my cousin Eve.  She prefers British English over American English.  Tatoebans are really split between British English and American English as the basis for learning if the focus is English.  Myself, I have to resolve my initially negative reaction to English being neither phonemic like Spanish nor logographic like Chinese, as it is more in the class of Irish Gaelic, being with distorted spellings.  Japanese is both phonemic and logographic, as it has sets of glyphs for both.

I notice that many North Americans who speak a more basilectal English are at odds with, to them, intimidating Greco-Latin words—Mediterranean words, as these vocables signal higher education.  In a sense, English is not a foreign language for me because a large bulk of the words derive from the Mediterranean—the land of my Caucasoid ancestors.