The Ultimate Pizza Quiz

YouTube has certainly come a long way since the first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, featuring its co-founder at the San Diego Zoo. It is estimated that more than 100 hours of video are uploaded onto YouTube every single minute! There are over a billion users, nearly one-third of all people on the Internet.

One of the first things that comes to mind when we think about the festive season is the Christmas tree. It doesn’t have to be a pine, though: in India, people decorate mango or banana trees. In New Zealand, the pohutukawa tree, with its crimson flowers, has replaced the European fir.

American and British English, while sharing many similarities, deviate from each other linguistically in many ways – from spelling to pronunciation to word choice. One thing they have in common, however, is that both versions of the language have undergone significant changes since first spoken.