Re: Hello Americans
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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Re: Hello Americans
I seem to prefer English spelling. And the English vocabulary is also, in my oppinion, richer and more cultivated.
Rubbish, knickers, and so on...
Few are born with it, even fewer know what to do with it.
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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"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
Re: Hello Americans
It's buoy, pronounced boy not boohey.
Always irritates the heck out of me on Merican films.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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Re: Hello Americans
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
You fellas are catching on quick.
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Re: Hello Americans
Wait - now you are putting the "u"s in front of the other vowels?
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Re: Hello Americans
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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