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Hey Canadian, just because you brought the world tasty maple glazed donuts ala Tim hortons, don't be thinking that kind of poor spelling is going to fly round these parts. That kind of wild use of U just reeks of a lack of self control.
As noted, the correct spelling for color is color.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Frazzled wrote:Hey Canadian, just because you brought the world tasty maple glazed donuts ala Tim hortons, don't be thinking that kind of poor spelling is going to fly round these parts. That kind of wild use of U just reeks of a lack of self control.
As noted, the correct spelling for color is color.
What about colore?
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Well, if you're being totally proper, that is, of course, acceptable.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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Colour? Honour? The British and their useless French-derived u's! Color and Honor were good enough for the Romans and they're good enough for you Norman-conquered Germans!
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Wikipedia wrote:Aluminium ( ˌæljʊˈmɪniəm (help·info), al-yoo-MIN-ee-əm) or aluminum ( /əˈluːmɪnəm/ (help·info), ə-LOO-mi-nəm, see spelling below) is a silvery white and ductile member of the boron group of chemical elements.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
These are actually different. "Affect" is only a verb and means 'to produce effect on', whilst "Effect" is both a noun and a verb. The verb form meaning "to bring about", whilst the noun is a 'result' or 'consequence'.
No, really? I thought I had failed basic grammar classes.
The point I was making(and you very obviously missed) was that people commonly misuse them interchangeably.
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@Orkeo: Perhaps you were just trolled in some mindbogglingly subtle way?
@Platuan4th: That's difficult to hear people mixing up. I never hear someone ask how new tax rates might "ee-ffect" them or ponder what "ah-ffect" carbon emissions have on global climate. I think the trouble with misusing them in written form is that people don't often hear the difference in spoken form.
Must have been. Trolls are getting wily these days.
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
Manchu wrote:@Orkeo: Perhaps you were just trolled in some mindbogglingly subtle way?
@Platuan4th: That's difficult to hear people mixing up. I never hear someone ask how new tax rates might "ee-ffect" them or ponder what "ah-ffect" carbon emissions have on global climate. I think the trouble with misusing them in written form is that people don't often hear the difference in spoken form.
Some people pronounce it eh-fect, not ee-fect(and similarly uh-fect instead of ah-fect), which makes it easier to mix up. Also, it's more common in writing than speech.
It's also listed as one of the top 10 mispronounced pairings in my speech text from 3 semesters ago.
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CadianXV wrote:Hmmm. Doesn't the U.S spell Sulphur incorrectly?
not incorrectly, just different
UK= Sulphur
US= Sulfur
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Manchu wrote:Colour? Honour? The British and their useless French-derived u's! Color and Honor were good enough for the Romans and they're good enough for you Norman-conquered Germans!
i just had to I'm sorry
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Khornholio wrote:In Australia it appears "caught" and "cot", the army bed, are different. But "pawn" and "porn" are the same. What's up with that?
bestiality i guess...
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Colour, Honour, Ask, Sulphur etc meh! Everyone has their own ideolect (which ironically, anyone doing Comms and Culture should know, can also be spelt idiolect.) The oddities of language eh? That's why English speaking countries don't learn foreign languages because ours is so bloody strange its hard to get into romance languages that practically all have the same template.
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both the aluminium and sulphur debates have already been debated at length, both spelling of each word are acceptable under IUPAC rules it depends on the country. the debate over American English spelling compared to British English is pointless as languages evolve. the one problem is the American pronunciation of patronise, it has two seperate meanings one positive, one negative, so they are spoken differently. positive is pA-tron-ise, negative is pat-ron-ise.
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BluntmanDC wrote: the one problem is the American pronunciation of patronise, it has two seperate meanings one positive, one negative, so they are spoken differently. positive is pA-tron-ise, negative is pat-ron-ise.
I find your statement patronizing.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
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All this from a country that takes a simple four letter word, "Iraq" and expands it in to six letters "Eye-raq"... sheesh!!!
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Frazzled wrote:Hey Canadian, just because you brought the world tasty maple glazed donuts ala Tim hortons, don't be thinking that kind of poor spelling is going to fly round these parts. That kind of wild use of U just reeks of a lack of self control.
As noted, the correct spelling for color is color.
your welcome for the donuts bTW. and poor spelling is a right, read your amemdnets. and Colo(u)r is, has, and always will be a matter of taste. (cause infants use colo(U)rs as recognition for what tastes good! and you and sir were most definately tots at one point)
U in brakets is for those who only use a U in the word. ignore if you feel like it.
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