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BogusDude
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Reply #51 November 3, 2007 9:43:32 AM
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There are some British spellings I agree with, and some I don't. As an example, I see no need to spell color as colour, as I pronounce it "cuh-lur," not "cuh-lore." On the other hand, traveling looks slightly like it should be pronounced "trav-eel-ing," so I prefer to double the l and make travelling.

However, I will point out that Oxford also makes an "American" dictionary, thereby making both cases accurate even when judged by the same publisher.
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Reply #52 November 3, 2007 11:23:36 AM
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Well, the lexicography game does have a famous association with insanity--I really liked a novel I read a while back that was based in part on the latter life of William Chester Minor. I think I might have mentioned in a similar threadjacked discussion quite a while back.
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Reply #53 November 4, 2007 9:42:26 AM
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>Dishonourable<

Typically as far as I know Americans don't like the vowel "u" But Canadians,English/Brittish do.
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BogusDude
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Reply #54 November 4, 2007 3:44:43 PM
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The UK added letters to words to get higher scores in scrabble. LMAO.


Ohhhhh The urge to comment on that one is chewing me up...

But on that note, I'm interested to hear if anyone has a plausible reason as to why the English language lost a number of letters when it sailed across the pond.

Tis a subject I've never really looked into when it has crossed my mind.



According to the OED website "Ask the Experts" section, the US standardized on the U-less spellings because of Noah Webster's dictionary. Then, a while later the UK standardi[s|z]ed on the spellings with the U largely as a reaction to the US going without the U. In other words, our spelling was first and you guys went the other way just to be contrary.
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Reply #55 November 4, 2007 7:07:55 PM
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Guess the nice thing about being Canadian is we can use either, and never be wrong.  
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Reply #56 November 4, 2007 9:32:33 PM
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Now on to thru VS through!
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Reply #57 November 4, 2007 11:04:22 PM
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Now on to thru VS through!


As bad as laff and laugh.
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Reply #58 November 5, 2007 11:28:36 AM
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Zydor -

Its should be it's.

'It is', shortened to a single word is - it's.

Just another 'grammar nanny' coming to the rescue.

Its indicates a plural of something - as in, more than one of.
Incorrect usaage, in this case.

(and american should really be capitalized - American)



I like my smug grammar nannies to also spell things correctly.
Usaage should be usage. Just coming to your rescue.

Grammar nannies should also try not to end a statement or sentence in a preposition...bad form chap   
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Reply #59 November 5, 2007 12:44:03 PM
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Well, if we're playing trump the quibble, Piznit should also have noticed that "it's" is an exception to general apostrophe rules. Its no-apostrophe form is the possessive while it's the contraction.
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Reply #60 November 6, 2007 12:49:06 AM
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Skitt's Law strikes agian!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitt%27s_law
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