Maybe you just cot kicked for being an arrogant opinionated little bastard then......not like you at all ay?
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Maybe you just cot kicked for being an arrogant opinionated little bastard then......not like you at all ay?
who me? never. hahaha
i do disagree on the arrogance bit though.
Hmmmm .... we'll talk!
I guess so, but it just goes to show that Beaver is smarter than those who teach him how to spell. The origin of the word is Latin and there never was a U in it. Those crazy Pommy bastards added the U to many words for some strange reason, labor, honor, color among others. I think that they wanted to be French. Americans being much smarter than the Poms did the correct thing and took the U out of it. Maybe one day Beavs teachers will see the light and do what is right.
Hmmm... I'm almost convinced... but not quite!
Latin is spelt like Latin; French like French; and English like English. English is different from Latin. And American English is different from English.
Very true Em.:approve:
But, why did the English add a 'U'? Is it correct just because they did?
It's their language so I would think so.
Indeed!
Larry was right when he mentioned the French, though - I'm pretty sure most of the Latin that made it into English came via France, so the Latin spelling changed as it was adopted into French, and then again when it came into English.
These days words seem to get assimilated wholesale from other languages and then we proceed to misspell them. But who knows, maybe that's what happened in the middle ages too, and those errors just became the norm...
So, keeping with the Italian theme, maybe cappucino and foccacia (sic) will end up being seen as correct!
:approve:
BTW: Good Job Beav!
Officially in Australia both English and American conventions are accepted, however you'll find that just about anyone who is a stickler in Oz lands on the British side of the fence. Very few people will stand up and shout for American conventions here (unless they have an American accent) in the case that they do, people just treat them as arrogant tourists and move on.
You will generally get less hassle and more support in Australia if you follow a British example, we being the good convict labour we are supposed to be!
Are those deliberate spelling mistakes included for the sake of hyperbole?
Probably a little difficult to "hear" a written report too ;)
Nice one, Burgs! :D
(Unless you persuade someone to read it to you, I s'pose)