Hey! That's a nice hymn! Still funny though. If only the British could speak English! *ducks*
Hey! That's a nice hymn! Still funny though. If only the British could speak English! *ducks*
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*throws a drumstick*Originally Posted by marnold
I'm not British, but I thought I would anyway (just for a laugh)
And if only Americans could spell it, what do you guys do with all those left over u's???Originally Posted by marnold
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The same thing we do with all those 're' words (centre, metre). . . Nothing. English people are lazyOriginally Posted by markb
You "other" English speakers have been causing me a lot of grief. Having observed your "proper" usage of the letter "u" in spelling, I've gotten into this bad habit of spelling words in that fashion. Not all the time, mind you, but rather haphazardly, which if far worse. Now instead of happily spelling words like "color", "behavior", and "harbor" in their accepted American English forms, I find myself throwing in the occasional "colour", "behaviour", and "harbour". When I combine the two forms as in. The colour of the water in the harbor..., it looks as though English might be my second language.
Just what I need...a spelling check to correct my proper use of English words. I'm so confused...
You guys are a terrible influence.....
Beautiful! My cheeks hurt from laughing.
Engrish, hah.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
And Engrish is the term given to the accents of people from the Far East who learn English.Originally Posted by Spudman
'Wou' yu rike to buy a Lorex for fi-teen dah-rah?'
huh, huh. . .
I'm not English!!!Originally Posted by Bloozcat
In any case, the reason that words are spelled 'aluminium' (pronounced - al-yoo-min-ee-um - bloody English people are always giving me jipp over that bloody word), 'colour', 'centre', etc. is to stay true to the words' etymological roots of Germanic, Norwegian, Latin/French, and Celtic origins.
American English spells words out more phonetically.
Either is correct, but Microsoft Word installed with an American English dictionary will put squiggly lines under the colours of your text, so to say.
You only start speaking British English when you refer to highways as motorways, cookies as biscuits, chips as crisps, and fries as chips, asking someone ' 'Ow be on, mush?' or using Cockney Rhyming Slang (up the apple and pears = stairs, having a bubble bath = laugh(some dialects pronounce 'th' at the end of words as 'f' so bath and laugh rhyme))
I'm cursed, I swear. To Americans I'm British and to British I'm Americans. Anyone ever heard of Captain Nemo? (not from '20,000 Leagues. . .')
Oh well. . . .