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Old 03-01-2010, 08:39 PM   #8071
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Dear American folk,

Each English-speaking country has its own 'correct spelling' peccadilloes. Please don't tell me I 'spelled it wrong' just because I don't use US English spelling. K? I'm Australian, I use Aussie English spelling.

*mutter*
Has someone here been ragging on your spelling? Whenever I see alternate spellings posted by folks who aren't of the same nationality as me, my first assumption is that it's a geographic variant.


That being said; USA! USA! USA!
The rest of y'all world citizens need to learn to spell proper—like we do!
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:44 PM   #8072
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But I'm a USA-ian, and I like grey better than gray. SO there!
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:47 PM   #8073
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But I'm a USA-ian, and I like grey better than gray. SO there!


YES! YES! Another of my kind! Thank YOU!!
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:52 PM   #8074
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Has someone here been ragging on your spelling?
Nah, not here. People on MR tend to be a lot more aware of such things than the average Joe

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Whenever I see alternate spellings posted by folks who aren't of the same nationality as me, my first assumption is that it's a geographic variant.

That being said; USA! USA! USA!
The rest of y'all world citizens need to learn to spell proper—like we do!
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Old 03-01-2010, 08:53 PM   #8075
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But I'm a USA-ian, and I like grey better than gray. SO there!
I'll be 60 next month. I don't like gray no matter how you spell it!
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:12 PM   #8077
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Just an incredibly common problem I run into I'm not implying that all citizens of the US are that ignorant... just a few who insist on correcting us foreigners
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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I'll be 60 next month. I don't like gray no matter how you spell it!
have you been practicing? I started telling people I was 50 when I was 47
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:15 PM   #8078
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Just an incredibly common problem I run into I'm not implying that all citizens of the US are that ignorant... just a few who insist on correcting us foreigners
Are you kidding? Most Americans can't spell the American versions of words.

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.

I think they're suing English teachers for correcting students now.
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:26 PM   #8079
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... have you been practicing? I started telling people I was 50 when I was 47
You're a very special lady! I thought teens were the only folks who lied about being older, and then mostly to buy beer and get into clubs!
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:30 PM   #8080
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Are you kidding? Most Americans can't spell the American versions of words. ...
I wish I had a nickle for every time I've seen "definitely" spelled "d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y"!

Def - i - NATE - ly?
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Old 03-01-2010, 09:37 PM   #8081
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Def - i - NATE - ly?
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Old 03-01-2010, 10:05 PM   #8082
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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
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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Are you kidding? Most Americans can't spell the American versions of words.
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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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.
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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I think they're suing English teachers for correcting students now.
What? Your English teachers know how to spell??
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Love it. And yes, I have seen that sort of thing happen.
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I wish I had a nickle for every time I've seen "definitely" spelled "d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y"!

Def - i - NATE - ly?
You could have a nickle for every time you saw that, but a nickel would be worth more.



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