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05-07-2005, 09:30 AM | #31 |
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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.
oh but there is.....what english countries beside the u.s drop the u from these words? exactly....... the queen is a useless old bag (with much worse children) but she served me well in winning this arguement! 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
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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
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The OED rules...Mine came with a Bausch & Lomb magnifying glass
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okay i'll show you a fight! back of the oval after school after all the teachers have left!
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oval? wtf is that? in my experience, it's either "by the flagpole" or "(behind or at some location) on the playground"
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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!
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Yeah... I have never heard the term "oval." There you go again... making up words.
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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
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"sports oval"? still doesn't clarify anything for me. you mean like a "track" for "running" (or is it "ronning"?)?
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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!
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