On the Handy Ladies thread, I noticed that LouBelle mentioned changing tyres.
What???!!!
It's T-I-R-E.
Also, a car has a hood - not bonnet.
And, it's organization - not organisation.
Sheesh!
Sylvia
Brits, Scots, and SA's Don't Know How to Spell
by snowbird 84 Replies latest jw friends
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Farkel
They certain colour their spelling differently, don't they?
A little bit of Beowulf should make you not so harsh about modern anglo-saxon spelling, methinks:
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
Famed was this Beowulf: {0a} far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.Farkel
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snowbird
Alas and alack, Farkel!!!
Did you have to do that?
Sylvia
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BorgHater
To us Brits it you lot who don't know how to spell lol. I have to say we used to get so pissed off over here that all the societys literature was full of American spellings and many a turn of phrase we would never use. But i can't spell to save my life anyway haha.
BorgHater x
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snowbird
I have to say we used to get so pissed off over here that all the societys literature was full of American spellings and many a turn of phrase we would never use.
Interesting.
LOL.
By the way, you also keep to the wrong side of the road.
Sylvia
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keyser soze
They sher don't.
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snowbird
Tee hee hee!
Sylvia
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Caedes
You do know those are the correct spelling of those words?!
An interesting history of the simplification of spelling in the US. Of particular interest is the support of a certain Charles Darwin! I bet you never thought I could work Darwin into this thread!
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Farkel
:By the way, you also keep to the wrong side of the road.
Frankly, I think the BEST way to drive is like they do in the US Virgin Islands: drive on the left side of the road British-style and have the steering wheel on the left side of the car American-style. Since most of the time there is only a driver in the car and most of the time the driver is the one who gets in and out of the car, it makes sense to have the driver get out of the car on the sidewalk side, not the street side.
It's safer that way.
Colour me practical.
Farkel
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snowbird
Farkel, sic Caedes!
Thanks.
Sylvia