20 Years With My Wife

It is interesting that I remember this word too (with two additional letters) from my early school times. My schoolbook was printed in about 1970s-1980s in the USSR.
I googled it and found this:

It seems to me Europe (and the Soviet Union) studied British English. (But now American English is more common, or a mix)

There's no such thing as 'British English' - British is a bastardisation of the Celtic word Britonnic which is itself an Aryanisation of Celtic. Many 'English' are in fact not 'English' the word is derived from the north German tribe the Engli. Most are fat little Saxons or Swabians.

American English is the result of far too many American TV programmes on European TV channels. American English contains many words that are archaic English from before 1776. The word route (phonetic 'root) is pronounced in American English as 'rout' as in an army running away rather than fight - timely Afghan army in the last 10 days.
 
Been with my lady for 35 years, don't know how she put up with me for so long.

Temptation - now there's a thing. Lived in Spain for 9 years, far too many beautiful dark eyed women, sorely tempted on many occasions - thing is when you've got a motherload of gold at home you don't go looking for scraps of silver elsewhere, unless your an idiot.