Quote:
Originally Posted by JSWolf
Just as you find A.M. annoying vs AM. I find the UK way of Mr, Dr, Jr, etc without the . (Mr., Dr., Jr.) annoying.
I wish English would standardize. (IMHO), why did the UK have to go so odd in some cases? The US and the UK started with the same English because the Pilgrims were from the UK. So what happened to the UK?  |
"I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but strait conduct ye to a hill side, where I will point ye out the right path of a vertuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming. I doubt not but ye shall have more adoe to drive our dullest and laziest youth, our stocks and stubbs from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choisest and hopefullest Wits to that asinine feast of sow-thistles and brambles which is commonly set before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tenderest and most docible age."
John Milton "Of Education" 1644
One hears similar prolix in the pronouncements of every US Police Commissioner there ever was, but sadly not the lyricism.
The firefox spellchecker detects 6 misspelt words in that passage using its UK dictionary, 7 using its US dictionary, and 8 using its Australian dictionary. For some reason Australians have a problem with superlative adjectives (drives me nuts) and like Americans they also have a problem with joined up names for weeds.
BR