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stephdeeable
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Am I the only one who gets mad when spell check tells me I've spelled favourite, colour, honour...etc, wrong. Um, No Internet spelling robot, don't even go there.
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By the looks of all these comments...Yep.0
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Centre?0
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By the looks of all these comments...Yep.
I cannot be alone in my rage.0 -
By the looks of all these comments...Yep.
I cannot be alone in my rage.
Can too! You're like, the Canadian Hulk0 -
Right click. Add to dictionary. Problem solved.
I can't imagine the rage you would have if you worked in a field that uses a lot of technical jargon that's not in the standard dictionary. I would be scared for those around you.0 -
In FireFox you can install a British English dictionary and be happy0
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Not just Canadians - I think it's pretty much all of the English speaking world except the US. We all manage to put a "u" in colour, except the US, who seem to have a need to be different. It really makes me wonder what a poor impression of the US population someone must have had, to feel the need to change the spellings of so many words to make them easier.
I don't get mad about it though, it's slightly annoying but I can live with it.0 -
Haha! I chuckled when I read your post. I am glad I am not alone!0
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Fibre.
litre0 -
Cheque irritates me lol..0
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I'm American and live in Canada for over 5 years and counting. It doesn't bother me. I usually use Canadian spelling because it is where I am, but occasionally use American spelling if I am speaking to an American group. I work in the theatre, use a lot of humour, and dance at a lot of dance centres, so it does come up a lot for me to choose which spelling based on where the dance theatre group centre is and especially when asking questions about a cheque or the colour of the costumes, etc.0
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It's annoying when I'm writing a large amount of text and there are red lines on the document because of the difference in Canadian and American spelling. But as for reading it and such, it doesn't bother me at all.0
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Not just Canadians - I think it's pretty much all of the English speaking world except the US. We all manage to put a "u" in colour, except the US, who seem to have a need to be different. It really makes me wonder what a poor impression of the US population someone must have had, to feel the need to change the spellings of so many words to make them easier.
I don't get mad about it though, it's slightly annoying but I can live with it.
we just like to improve on everything the English did.0 -
As an editor living in Canada, YES I find it annoying as well.0
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Not just Canadians - I think it's pretty much all of the English speaking world except the US. We all manage to put a "u" in colour, except the US, who seem to have a need to be different. It really makes me wonder what a poor impression of the US population someone must have had, to feel the need to change the spellings of so many words to make them easier.
I don't get mad about it though, it's slightly annoying but I can live with it.
It's actually a really interesting bit of trivia- It can pretty much be traced back singlehandedly to Noah Webster (of Webster's dictionary fame). In his eyes, it was a 'nationalistic' effort to streamline and reform the English language- it was intentional to set the US apart from England. I don't remember all the specifics, but somehow eliminating U's and E's and other silent letters was more 'efficient', or something. He was really obsessed with it.0 -
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I'm American and live in Canada for over 5 years and counting.
Me too! I don't use those lousy Canadian spellings though.
Also, it's "soda." Yeah, I said it!0 -
It's actually a really interesting bit of trivia- It can pretty much be traced back singlehandedly to Noah Webster (of Webster's dictionary fame).
Not single-handedly. Melvil Dewey (father of the Dewey Decimal System) also had a big part to play with streamlining the language. Although he took it pretty far -- he wanted to say 'loj' for 'lodge,' for example. That's just nuts!0 -
Good old Ben Franklin also tried to get thru for through and tho for though, but those didn't stick. Well, at least not until everyone started texting!0
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Not really, I deal with companies all around the world and they don't really pay much attention and neither do I. Lol I am just happy if the response back is in 'english' and not google translate English.0
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