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As long as she is gonna give me a new tuque afterwards! LOL!!!!
"Oh, I gotta waste to throw!"
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:31:57 AM)| |  | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser. 
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
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LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
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Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
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Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
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I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
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Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
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That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
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I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
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Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
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Hiya Strat  there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
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Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:31:57 AM | |
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Ahhhhh....quit your kevetching and stop mumbling, will ya!! LOL I can't understand what you're typing...it's too fast for me to read! We need to turn you over to my old speech teacher, Miss. Kinney. She'll straighten you out, you hoser.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:27:47 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
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LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
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guidogodoy wrote: |
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Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
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Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
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guidogodoy wrote: |
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I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
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Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
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That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
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Becks wrote: |
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I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
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Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
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Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
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Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:30:22 AM | |
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Yer right....I reckon! 
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:22:57 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | It should also be noted the context in which the word 'reckon' is utilized.
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:27:47 AM | |
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It is really funny that where I am from, Grosse Pointe, sits north of Windsor Ontario...thus the name...fat point, there is a regional dialect that puts more 'eh's in a sentence FAR more than most Canadians I have ever met. You'll see it in the way I type here if you really pay attention.
Extremely quick rate of speaking and the norm is not to move your lips too much! LOL!!!
I got no end of crap about it when I went to college two hours to the north and I am going to kill someone here the next time they tell me to slow down. Listen faster, eh! [Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM)
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LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
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guidogodoy wrote: |
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Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
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Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
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guidogodoy wrote: |
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I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
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Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: |
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That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
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Becks wrote: |
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I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
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_strat_ wrote: |
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Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
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Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
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Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:22:57 AM | |
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It should also be noted the context in which the word 'reckon' is utilized.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:12:48 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Becks] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:19:58 AM | |
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LMAO Guido!
I say cheers and mate alllllllll the time, but you're right, I've never heard an American actually say those words I don't think.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:18:48 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:18:48 AM | |
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Ya might could wanna fix yer spellin' a bit.
The word is "gramma!" Ain't here fer long, though. Powerful late an jest 'bout to South Park m'self t' sleep!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:15:35 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:18:46 AM | |
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The Brits say 'reckon' a lot as well. I should know...I support an office full of them! Cheers! And here's another thing or two: Everyone outside the US, says 'cheers' and 'mate'. You'll be hard-pressed to find anyone in the States who says either one. I say them b/c I like being different than my fellow Americans.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:02:07 AM)| | | Becks wrote: | | Cheers for that Darth! Us New Zealanders are really bad for saying 'reckon' all the time, LOL! And we tag 'eh?' on to the end of sentences all the time haha.
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:15:35 AM | |
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Yihaaa!! My auntie-mom-dad-uncle-cousin-grandma Guido is here!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by guidogodoy from Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:12:48 AM)| | | guidogodoy wrote: | | I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [guidogodoy] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:12:48 AM | |
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I was gonna say, I reckon that you ain't never been 'round these here parts! LOL
Thanky for 'cluding Tennessee. I hear that word mor'n y'all could shake a stick at!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:57:38 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:11:45 AM | |
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Yup, I noticed the "reckon". Couldnt help it, such a funny word... I hear it all the times in Brit sitcoms, but couldnt spot one in Married With Children, if my life depended on it.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:57:38 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Becks] Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:02:07 AM | |
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Cheers for that Darth! Us New Zealanders are really bad for saying 'reckon' all the time, LOL! And we tag 'eh?' on to the end of sentences all the time haha.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Darth_Painkiller_0870 from Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:57:38 AM)| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Return_of_Darth_Painkiller_0870] Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:57:38 AM | |
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That's correct Becks on all fronts. Anything you guys (non-USA) spell that ends in -our, such as humour, we leave the 'u' out. Also, there are differences in our sentence structure. You will find it extremely rare to hear an American use the word 'reckon' except in the southern portion of the USA in places like Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio (obviously not in the South, but they act like it).
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:02:16 AM)| | | Becks wrote: | | I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Becks] Thursday, April 09, 2009 4:02:16 AM | |
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I think thats the way it goes. English as a language is always evolving anyway, and it's a magpie tongue, most of our words come from other languages LOL.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:59:59 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:59:59 AM | |
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Aha... So, if I get it right, for once its not the Brits that have to be something special, its the Yanks? I mean, looks like all fmr. British colonies use British spelling, except for Americans.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Becks from Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:31:07 AM)| | | Becks wrote: | | Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Becks] Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:31:07 AM | |
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Hiya Strat there are a couple of other differences I can think of, theatre being standard British spelling, theater being standad American; the use of a z in place of an s in some words in American spelling like hospitalise/hospitalize, colonise/colonize (I believe that's correct but am not 100% sure). Here in New Zealand we use British, so colour, metre, centre, colonise etc.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:27:44 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [_strat_] Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:23:24 AM | |
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Thats because you dont try. I know that there is an expert speller somewhere in there waiting to get out.
Yeah, but you say "oot", dont you?
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Head banger from Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:23:39 PM)| | | Head banger wrote: | | colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [Head banger] Wednesday, April 08, 2009 5:23:39 PM | |
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colour is english, centre I think is english. tyre english, tire usa. there are others, I dont know them all because in canada we do colour, center and tire. and of course, I cant spell anyway. the why? damed if I know
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by _strat_ from Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:27:44 AM)| | | _strat_ wrote: | | Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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Ok... Ive got a question regarding the English language.
Ive noticed a couple of times now, there seems to be (at least) two ways of spelling certain things, British and American. Like colour and color (with or without the u), and center or centre. Now, I guess it aint such a big deal (although Conservapedia banns British spelling - apparently it is an "anti-American bias"), but... Can anyone tell me what is British and what is American, and are there more differences than above listed? |
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| [_strat_] Wednesday, March 25, 2009 4:39:49 AM | |
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Gr8 1!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by jimmyjames from Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:44:37 PM)| | | jimmyjames wrote: | | If you punch 55378008 into a calculator and flip it upside down it says boobless.
| | | Darth_Painkiller_0870 wrote: | | It makes me long for the days when we thought that typing 1134 on a calculator and flipping it upside down so that it'd spell 'hell' was amusing.
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