I love Brits..... but you folks really do need to learn how to spell 

Whilst I can't really get worked up about it, I do prefer the English I learned at school.
However there are enough variations in this little country on how it is spoken so one has to accept that Americans, isolated as they are from the motherland, will slip in their ways and I feel it is our duty to point out their follies whenever possible.

I really dislike the poor spelling and grammar that are now common in society though, especially in job applications that I see.  Particularly irksome are those that don't know when to use their, there or they're.

... and don't start me on apostrophes!

Hey!  I'm with birdman on this one guys!  I mean colour, demeanour, endeavour, favour, fibre, harbour, humour, labour, licence, learnt, neighbour, offence, parlour, rumour, savious, savour, valour, vapour.

It bugs me so much too cause I see all the red from the spell check when I'm typing.  So I'll go and fix it then I'll read through and change all the spelling back again.  Sometimes if I'm tired I'll repeat that process of auto correcting and manually correcting several times before posting or sending something.     What makes that whole process worse is that out computers at work correct things with the standard American spelling, yet when I'm doing reports that'll be entered in court, they should be the Canadian way so I repeat the process there many times as well.  I've got to find a Canadian English spell checker! 

Quote from: Jer on July 09, 2008, 03:38:36 PM

Hey!  I'm with birdman on this one guys!  I mean colour, demeanour, endeavour, favour, fibre, harbour, humour, labour, licence, learnt, neighbour, offence, parlour, rumour, savious, savour, valour, vapour.

OK I STOP YOU RIGHT THERE>>>>LEARNT is not a word..lol

It is in Southern Speak. I'll use it in a sentence.

My daddy learnt me to ride a bike.

Can you back me up here PBurke?

Quote from: Jer on July 09, 2008, 03:38:36 PM

Hey!  I'm with birdman on this one guys!  I mean colour, demeanour, endeavour, favour, fibre, harbour, humour, labour, licence, learnt, neighbour, offence, parlour, rumour, savious, savour, valour, vapour.

OK I STOP YOU RIGHT THERE>>>>LEARNT is not a word..lol

And OK I STOP YOU RIGHT THERE

Sounds like Asian American 

I inadvertently started a whole big 'tiff' when I used Brit / Canadian spellling; so I should probably not get into this; but can't resist . ..

glad to see the guys on THIS thread have a sense of HUMOUR about it all

John

Southern bashing?!  Who's Southern Bashing?  lol

Can't nobody bash us Southerners except US!

Learnt is a word.  So is "ain't", "fixinto" and "gonna".  Along with many others.  "etyet" is another great Southern word.  For example, when folks come over to the house you always say, "Ya'll look hungry. Etyet?"

It's like a whole 'nother world down here.  However, I have never REPEAT never humped a cousin.  lol  Although I do have one that is really HOT!  Love her!