Nature's Great Events

Nature's Great Events was a wildlife documentary broadcast on the BBC in February 2009. It had episodes with names like "The Great Melt" and "The Great Feast" and "The Great Salmon Run." It got rave reviews. One reviewer said you can cradle your jaw in your lap while watching it.

In the United States, the program was shown with the title "Nature's Most Amazing Events." This means one of two things:

1. The American English equivalent of the British "great" is "most amazing" (and vice versa).

or

2. Americans think that great things aren't such a big deal; only things that are the most amazing of that kind of thing are worth paying attention to.

Last night I had some great pizza and the most amazing fried chicken.


Nature's most amazing urinating chimpanzee.
Photo: rofanator via Flickr (CC)