Electric blankets, instant coffee, plastic bags of all kinds and paper towels, soft toilet paper, to name a few.
Nutkin, its not your fault.
Americans often speak archaic English because the many settlers that came from England, carrying the language with them, arrived before English spelling was standardized. That was more or less late 18th Century.
I think I am 'mid-atlantic' ( sort of like the way Cary Grant used to speak
) as I was born in England but have lived abroad in Canada for most of my life, but I always use the English spellings.
Some pronunciations that Americans use however, are just peculiar, like firing missals ( prayer books) instead of 'missiles'. Of course. perhaps some people would benefit by having prayer books fired at them.
