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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
when I was very little my Grandfather gave me a bunch of books from his childhood library. they were published in London and all had British spelling. to this day words like color don't look right and unless I am concentrating hard come out as colour
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Uh huh. I do occasionally have the opposite problem, because I write manuals in US English all day then write fiction in Australian English. While that doesn't exactly make me multilingual, it does sometimes give me a headache... or a sudden urge to replace ALL s's with z'z!
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Are you kidding? Most Americans can't spell the American versions of words.
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Uh huh. It's much the same in Australia. Except Aussie words
Although, thanks to the large amount of US content on our TVs, many of us try to dial '911' before remembering that our emergency number is '000'
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
I gave up on correcting people; it's pointless, there might be 5 people left who care anymore (and nomesque appears to have met one of them). Yes, it pisses me off; yes, I realize there's nothing I can do about it.
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I don't correct people unless they
really irritate me with the bad spelling. I don't mind people correcting my ebooks - in fact I appreciate it - IF it's an actual misspelling.
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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
I think they're suing English teachers for correcting students now.
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What? Your English teachers know how to spell??