What kind of English do you speak?

[aussiecreeder]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Higher_Desire)

Miriam-Websters

ah but its not the oxford....if you're looking for how to spell words in english a pommy publication needs to be used, not american spelling.

Quote: (Originally Posted by Higher_Desire)

There is no U in color. Nor is there one in Labor.

oh but there is.....what english countries beside the u.s drop the u from these words? exactly.......

Quote: (Originally Posted by Higher_Desire)

I only said he'd kick her butt. I never said anything about finding her. Hell, you couldn't even find her in Buckingham palace the place is so huge.

the queen is a useless old bag (with much worse children) but she served me well in winning this arguement!

Quote: (Originally Posted by Higher_Desire)

There has never been a civil war in your land because there have never been two opinions. You're told what to do and you do it. Yeah, it's a lot cheaper to elect a head of state when you don't have one. It's much easier to use another country's monarch.

never had two opinions? that is a bit of an overstatement i think, last time i checked there were more than two political parties for a start. i didn't realise war was such a good thing. but again this is a country that takes pride in having the right to bear arms. actually for all intensive purposes the governor-general is the head of state but neither he nor the queen actually do anything.



anyway the joke has turned into another debate........lol

[hayley]

40% General American English
40% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

How I could come up with 40% Yankee I have no idea.

Oooh, this debate is interesting! Fight! Fight! FIGHT!

Ehe

[Dogstar]

The OED rules...Mine came with a Bausch & Lomb magnifying glass

[aussiecreeder]

okay i'll show you a fight! back of the oval after school after all the teachers have left!

[RMadd]

Quote: (Originally Posted by aussiecreeder)

okay i'll show you a fight! back of the oval after school after all the teachers have left!

oval? wtf is that? in my experience, it's either "by the flagpole" or "(behind or at some location) on the playground"

[aussiecreeder]

Quote: (Originally Posted by RMadd)

oval? wtf is that? in my experience, it's either "by the flagpole" or "(behind or at some location) on the playground"

the oval or the sports oval is generally at the back of the school and in this case is where anyone spelling mum "mom" shall be beaten to a bloody pulp!

[Chase]

Yeah... I have never heard the term "oval." There you go again... making up words.

[DangerousDan85]

70% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

i work at a grocery store and I hate when employees and customers call the shopping carts "buggies". it drives me nuts

[RMadd]

"sports oval"? still doesn't clarify anything for me. you mean like a "track" for "running" (or is it "ronning"?)?

[aussiecreeder]

Quote: (Originally Posted by RMadd)

"sports oval"? still doesn't clarify anything for me. you mean like a "track" for "running" (or is it "ronning"?)?

well it could be a big field (for playing football on aussie, rugby or soccer) or it could be a running track with the area for field events contained therein. running unlike mom is an english word!