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Proper names are due proper respect. English is one of them. So is everyone's name here.
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Ouch,
Proper names are due proper respect. English is one of them. So is everyone's name here.
Head nor tail, iJ.Ouch,, I think??
Proper names are due proper respect. English is one of them. So is everyone's name here.
I think for American English:
Revise---->Revize.
It is probably the only spelling Americans might consider changing right now.
I also agree on Theatre vs Theater. Theater spelling is just for the sake of being different from the British.
Connexion with "xion" spelling sounds interesting and I would prefer it.
Here's part of an Wikipedia article about it:
The spellings connexion, inflexion, deflexion, reflexion, genuflexion are now somewhat rare in everyday British usage, but are not used at all in the US: the more common connection, inflection, deflection, reflection, genuflection have almost become the standard internationally. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the older spellings are more etymologically conservative, since these four words actually derive from Latin forms in -xio-. The US usage derives from Webster who discarded -xion in favour of -ction for analogy with such verbs as connect.[36]
Connexion has found preference again amongst recent British government initiatives such as Connexions (the national careers and training scheme for school early leavers). Until the early 1980s, The Times of London also used connexion as part of its house style.[37] It is still used in legal texts and British Methodism retains the eighteenth century spelling connexion to describe its national organization, for historical reasons.
In both forms, complexion (which comes from the stem complex) is standard and complection is not.[38] However, the adjective complected (as in "dark-complected"), although sometimes objected to, can be used as an alternative to complexioned in the US,[39] but is quite unknown in this sense in the UK, although there is an extremely rare usage to mean complicated (OED). Note, however, that crucifiction is an error in either form of English; crucifixion is the correct spelling.
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
Your previous post was too cryptic for me. I didn't understand head nor tail of it.Too cryptic.
Ah.
I thought your last clause was a dig a joekix's inability to actually use the shift key.
Just my slightly slanted way of looking at things.
Move along please. Nothing to see here.
I thought your last clause was a dig a joekix's inability to actually use the shift key.
Just my slightly slanted way of looking at things.
Move along please. Nothing to see here.
Quite wrong!
Aluminium was first isolated by a German, the process improved by Frenchmen, and named by an Englishman - Humphry Davy. He first called it alumium, then aluminum, then changed to aluminium after a suggestion from an anonymous magazine contributor.
There are other metals ending in -um, such as platinum, tantalum, molybdenum etc. Not sure why no-one suggested these names be changed.
It's not really a great enigma, it's just the effects of marketing and geography at work...
Geography: Language is obviously a virus as it depends on replication [Burroughs]. Export the (British English) virus to a new and geographically different environment (the U.S.) and it will be forced to adapt to its environment via mutation and recombination.
Marketing: British vs. American English = Concise Oxford vs. Merriam Webster. The "first truly American dictionary" was publish by Noah Webster, who favored spelling reform. You can read sections from Webster's An Essay on the Necessity, Advantages, and Practicality of Reforming the Mode of Spelling and of Rendering the Orthography of Words Correspondent to Pronunciation here, which also reflect Webster's thoughts regarding the need for an "American language".
Per Merriam-Webster Online:
Yea...annoys me to. But its the internet, its where that stuff was invented
That is just too brilliant
Is anyone else bothered by the general lack of writing ability by so many posters? I like this site as it's active and covers quite a bit of ground but so many "txtese" posts is a huge turn-off.
geez dudez i wanna now about ezgaurds. are they lose or cuz id hate to loose one fo that wuld be ftl, imo
TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have high expectations of this board.
Yes, let us add -ium endings to those words.
As for American English vs British English, I still prefer British English.
The original the better.
Great! An opportunity for me to rant about my pet peeve! This is one error I see nearly every time I read a thread on these forums: the confusion between lie and lay.
For those of you who need help with this one:
You have an old iBook lying around. It was lying on your desk yesterday, and it will be lying around in the future, until you finally sell it.
Sunday afternoon, you decided to lie down and watch a movie on your Apple TV. You lay there for a very long time before you realized that the movie was really just a very long Microsoft commercial.
You then decided to lay down your remote and determine the source of the noise outside. You discovered that it was a chicken laying an egg.
Does that help?
For those of you who need help with this one:
You have an old iBook lying around. It was lying on your desk yesterday, and it will be lying around in the future, until you finally sell it.
Sunday afternoon, you decided to lie down and watch a movie on your Apple TV. You lay there for a very long time before you realized that the movie was really just a very long Microsoft commercial.
You then decided to lay down your remote and determine the source of the noise outside. You discovered that it was a chicken laying an egg.
Does that help?
To be honest, I'm not overly fussed by the odd spelling or grammatical error we all make them from time to time, after all. However, if you're gleefully pointing out the mistakes of others you'd best make sure you're not making any glaring errors yourself I've no qualms about people being brought down a peg or two in this regard.
But one thing that does annoy me is stuff like text speak. After all, there are no limits on letters and characters when you're posting, so there really is no need to go bastardising words. I won't lose any sleep if someone mistakenly uses your when they should be using you're, but if you prefer to use U R then I really think there's no helping you.
But one thing that does annoy me is stuff like text speak. After all, there are no limits on letters and characters when you're posting, so there really is no need to go bastardising words. I won't lose any sleep if someone mistakenly uses your when they should be using you're, but if you prefer to use U R then I really think there's no helping you.
Indeed. People taking proper words and using randomly misspelt words instead, because they sound a bit like the original one... where will it all end?
where will it all end?
What--Wat
Was---Waz
Is---Iz
Enterprise---Enterprize
Revise---Revize
Tongue---Tung
is a few I could think of.
PS: I actually want American English to change to those spellings.
Wow, you are obsessed. It's not going to happen because you want it to.
And why American English? You dont even live here, and claim to use British. So why do you care?
I want American English to become a separate language from British English. In 50-100 years Americans should not call their language "English" any more.
Is it that disturbing to your daily life?
I'm not really picking on you, but I'm trying to get an understanding of why this is so important.
I cannot stand when people spell like this sometimes and still call it: "English":
Jewellery----->Jewelry
Theatre-----> Theater
Pyjamas----> Pajamas
etc.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_british_english
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
If Americans are going to change the English language, they might as well give their language a new name and not call it "English" any more.
I am just further trying to make American English separate as possible.
PS: I have nothing against Americans, I just do not want them to call their language "English" any more even if it is similar to British English right now.
Besides several spelling differences, there are very few meaningful differences between the two languages - as in sentence structure, word meanings, grammar, etc.