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Old August 15, 2003, 22:32   #61
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Hey, if you want to harass anybody about messing up the language... you MIGHT want to start with the Jamaicans....
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Old August 15, 2003, 23:36   #62
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Actually, Jamaicans have improved on the language. Americans -- Webster first and foremost -- have perverted, corrupted, and bastardized it.
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Old August 15, 2003, 23:39   #63
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Actually, Jamaicans have improved on the language. Americans -- Webster first and foremost -- have perverted, corrupted, and bastardized it.
Contradicted yourself there.
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Old August 16, 2003, 13:28   #64
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/me admits imperfections of self

I've given up fighting against Microsoft on the s-issue a couple months ago.

However, I am still very gung-ho about the u-issue and the re-issue.

I guess I can return to the true path in that too.

Accept me back into the flock, Cthulhu, for I have sinned. Eat the sinners before you eat the repented sinners.

Americans -- Webster first and foremost -- corrupted, perverted, and bastardised English.
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Re: AmericaniSed spelling
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Sorry but we gave you the language, we tell you how to spell it!!!

Color is wrong. It is COLOUR.

Recognize et al is wrong. Recognise is correct.

Mom is wrong. ITS MUM DAMMIT!

Freedom is wrong. The proper term is FRENCH (accept it).
Someone should take over America and rename it Umuricu just so they have to use the letter u more.
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Old August 17, 2003, 00:35   #66
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Old August 17, 2003, 01:30   #67
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Old August 17, 2003, 03:40   #68
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Ha -- I bet you wouldn't be able to even swat a fly if it was annoying you.
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Old August 17, 2003, 04:00   #69
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All that's required is consistency of usage.

American English is frequently older English usage, or English dialectical usage, peculiar to the area the immigrant originally came from (broil, chowder, clew).

British speakers of English will of course recall that words such as clamour, glamour, honour, labour and vigour drop the 'u' when inflected.

And words ending in -or already outnumber those ending in -our in British English- doctor, vendor, liquor, and so on.

Interestingly enough, 'ax' started out as the recognised British spelling, back in 1882, in the O.E.D. Nowadays, 'axe' is the accepted British spelling, and 'ax' is seen as the Americanism (or Ebonics for to enquire).

What we should object to are prissy American euphemisms- ass for arse, and rock for stone. Pebble is a stone is a pebble- it ain't a rock, or a boulder....
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