Hello.
I have a question. Why does American English state that the correct spelling is "color". Then why is the correct spelling "ridiculous" and not "ridiculos", eh?
- Hax
Hello Americans
Hello.
I have a question. Why does American English state that the correct spelling is "color". Then why is the correct spelling "ridiculous" and not "ridiculos", eh?
- Hax
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Re: Hello Americans
That is a ridiculos question...Originally Posted by Hax
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Re: Hello Americans
Americans tried to shorten and change words to be trendy, removing some of the French and Germanic influences.
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Re: Hello Americans
TEH AMERICAN$$ ARE OWNED THIER SPELLING ARE INCONSITINENT!
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We Americans are just born better than the rest of the world.
lol, actually I use the British spelling for some words (such as colour) because I think that they make more sense, but at the same time, some American words make more sense to me.
(Not to mention we have such incredibly sexy accents)
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Okay what.TEH AMERICAN$$ ARE OWNED THIER SPELLING ARE INCONSITINENT!
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Re: Hello Americans
I grew up in America so I just assumed the words were spelled that way so that is the way you wrote them. I was never taught of any reason for it, not in HS anyway. I took no English classes in college. Perhaps to be trendy, but perhaps for ease in spelling and while writing though I don't know. Could be that high and mighty sense America holds over the rest of the world too though! Anyway, I am glad they are spelled as such because my spelling is particularly bad anyway, any more difficult, and no one could read any of my posts! ;)
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Hello Hax,
For the same reasons that wolves in colder climates may have thicker coats than those in warmer ones. Adaption, selection and variation based on various influences.
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It's just one of the examples on how languages evolve across space and time. There probably is a more in depth and detailed answer as to how the 'u' was dropped in certain words but I'd imagine that's very obscure knowledge. Maybe ajax would know?
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Don't you mean "net"?
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I wish!
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Weu shouuld hauveu au Speull-Liukeu-au-Noun-Aumeuriucaun dauy.
If my audience is international like it is here, I try to use the "correct" spelling - colour, centre, etc. If I'm addressing Americans, I use the "correct" spelling - color, center, etc.
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I seem to prefer English spelling. And the English vocabulary is also, in my oppinion, richer and more cultivated.
Rubbish, knickers, and so on...
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Re: Hello Americans
It's centimeter, center, colour, neighbour and whatever else I say is right!
Their r more impotent problems with americun spelling then that, zis topic is prätty rediculus.
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Re: Hello Americans
It's buoy, pronounced boy not boohey.
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Re: Hello Americans
No if you spell it like that and you're from America it makes you a [silly person]We Americans are just born better than the rest of the world.
lol, actually I use the British spelling for some words (such as colour) because I think that they make more sense, but at the same time, some American words make more sense to me.
(Not to mention we have such incredibly sexy accents
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Aren't American spellings supposed to be closer to English as it was before it branched off into US/rest of world categories.
In saying "rest of world", I think that Canada and Australia use the British way of spelling?
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Those words made foreign student's life a misery when they learn english
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There has been a long and storied history of spelling reform. Some of the reforms caught on in some countries but not in others. That is why spellings differ between the U.S.A. and Great Britain, not due to some retention of Elizabethan spellings.
English has horrible spelling. Nobody, but nobody can justify "through." Noah Webster made valiant efforts at reform, almost all of which failed. Ben Johnson, Ben Franklin, Issac Asimov and countless others have made attempts at regularizing this miscegenated, misbegotten language. Read up. It's a whole arena of history of which you were probably unaware.
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I think George Bernard Shaw started off a good effort, with the Shavian alphabet.
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You fellas are catching on quick.
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Wait - now you are putting the "u"s in front of the other vowels?
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Don't forget regional pronunciation and spellings.
All in all though American English for all its complications is a beautiful language.
It is a hodgepodge with English,French,Latin,German,Arabic,Yiddish,Slavic,Welsh etc words and phrasings mixed together to form a vibrant and flexible language.There is no other like it.
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Hax, I had no idea you could speak Canadian, eh?
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It's the result of many a year listening to Canadian rock bands, eh.
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Just to make things more interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland_American_English
I hate my accent..when i mean to say iron it comes out Aihn and when i try to say hour it sounds like Ahr.
Stupid speech.
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They can if they have a background in Middle Engelich
It's all to do with us dropping the 28th letter of the alphabet.
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þrough?
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