madcow Posted September 27, 2004 Report Posted September 27, 2004 duffy : you americans spell some words differently to the rest of the world.. i think its because your scholars think they are somehow smarter than the rest of the english speaking world Americans (and probably some Canadians) spell realise with a z..along with a lot of other similar words.. the rest of the sane world uses an s
slicky Posted September 27, 2004 Report Posted September 27, 2004 well im canadian myself but i read alot of literature so i tend to use the proper spelling for words. honour armour realise trolly humbug and so on... Americans were too stupid to figure out how to spell words properly when they developed their own printing industry so they just changed some words to spell the same as they sound when spoken. End of mystery.
Urban Posted September 28, 2004 Report Posted September 28, 2004 color honor check expire Z (zee) not cause we think we are smarter.. just better :wink:
The Postman Posted September 28, 2004 Report Posted September 28, 2004 Why is this thread still going?
madcow Posted September 28, 2004 Report Posted September 28, 2004 and on that note, before this thread spirals down into another post as many google image searched images as possible thread... thread locked
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