Being an Englishman I usually feel superior in these threads but there's a couple of errors listed above that I wasn't aware of - whoops, of which I wasn't aware
I note, QS, that there's an uncharacteristic number of typos in your posts. Have you included a code for us to work on or is your subconscious playing tricks because of the subject matter?
A couple of things I hear from Americans which always causes me to wonder if they're errors or common usage on your side of the pond:
alternate instead of alternative
The answer "I don't" instead of "I haven't" - "Have you seen my car keys?. "No, I don't".
"Start over" instead of "start over again"
Oh, and my ancestors in Lancashire have been saying "snook" for centuries