British Words and Misspellings

[Perianne]

All in fun....

The British people spell and say things funny... that is.. odd.

Telly. Now what is the world is a telly? I am gonna go watch telly. lol

Lift. Why would you call an elevator a "lift"?

And the funky spellings. Why add "u" unnecessarily to words? Colour, for example. Why change the "z" to "s", as in recognize? If I type "recognise" or "colour", spellchecker automatically highlights it. Don't the British people have spellchecker? And what if you colorize something? Is it actually colourise in England?

And what is it with "cheque" instead of check? Can you imagine some constructions workers saying "Let's cheque out the women as they walk by"?

I wonder how they would spell "Perianne" in England?

:)

[Bilgerat]

I wonder how they would spell "Perianne" in England?

:)


I'm gonna go with

M'Lady

:salute:

[tailfins]

One way to spot outsourced computer code is variable names and comments with continental spelling. India uses British style language.

[Gunny]

All in fun....

The British people spell and say things funny... that is.. odd.

Telly. Now what is the world is a telly? I am gonna go watch telly. lol

Lift. Why would you call an elevator a "lift"?

And the funky spellings. Why add "u" unnecessarily to words? Colour, for example. Why change the "z" to "s", as in recognize? If I type "recognise" or "colour", spellchecker automatically highlights it. Don't the British people have spellchecker? And what if you colorize something? Is it actually colourise in England?

And what is it with "cheque" instead of? Can you imagine some constructions workers saying "Let's cheque out the women as they walk by"?

I wonder how they would spell "Perianne" in England?

:)

You really didn't set your self up for that, right? I'll pass. :)

Brits speak English. We don't. Simple as that.

[Nonnie]

Not only you spell words and pronounce them wrong, you also do it on the wrong side of the road!! You had to go one better!!

When we were kids and travelled up North to see relatives, we used to hoy clemmy's with the other kids.

Do you hoy clemmy's?

[Gunny]

Not only you spell words and pronounce them wrong, you also do it on the wrong side of the road!! You had to go one better!!

When we were kids and travelled up North to see relatives, we used to hoy clemmy's with the other kids.

Do you hoy clemmy's?

Ice cream?

[gabosaurus]

This is one I actually know. Clemmys are rocks or stones. Like "I'd like ta hoy a clemmy at that ugly mug."

I remember reading in history about how Americans decided to change the spellings of different words as a way to asserting their independence from England.
Worst of all was adapting a different system of measurements and temperature. We screwed that up big time.

[Gunny]

This is one I actually know. Clemmys are rocks or stones. Like "I'd like ta hoy a clemmy at that ugly mug."

I remember reading in history about how Americans decided to change the spellings of different words as a way to asserting their independence from England.
Worst of all was adapting a different system of measurements and temperature. We screwed that up big time.

Try again. We used British measurements. We just never adapted to the metric system.

[Perianne]

Try again. We used British measurements. We just never adapted to the metric system.

We use almost 100% metric in the medical field.

[Nonnie]

This is one I actually know. Clemmys are rocks or stones. Like "I'd like ta hoy a clemmy at that ugly mug."

I remember reading in history about how Americans decided to change the spellings of different words as a way to asserting their independence from England.
Worst of all was adapting a different system of measurements and temperature. We screwed that up big time.

Spot on, throw a stone.

Now I'm off yam.

[Gunny]

We use almost 100% metric in the medical field.

They like to swap back and forth in the electrical field. Everything we us is English measurements; while, the plumbers use metric. You have to size our pipe one way, and the plumbers' the other.

[Nonnie]

Try again. We used British measurements. We just never adapted to the metric system.

Imperial makes more sense in that how the measures and quantities relate to your environment.

You ask for a pint off beer because a pint was considered a comfortable amount to drink. We retained the pint measure here because of beer. It would sound daft going up to the bar and asking, " 568ml of beer please".

Erm, is the American pint the same as a uk pint?

[Perianne]

They like to swap back and forth in the electrical field. Everything we us is English measurements; while, the plumbers use metric. You have to size our pipe one way, and the plumbers' the other.

Can you give me an example about metric plumbing? Don't they use 1/2" pipe and fittings and the like?

[Nonnie]

Two common metric sizes are 15mm and 25mm. The imperial was 1/2" and 3/4inch.

15mm and 1/2" are compatible, but when joining 22mm onto 3/4", you need a different olive for compression and for soldering, a 22mm to 3/4" straight connector.

[jimnyc]

Funny Brits screwing up OUR language! :laugh: :poke:

[Gunny]

Imperial makes more sense in that how the measures and quantities relate to your environment.

You ask for a pint off beer because a pint was considered a comfortable amount to drink. We retained the pint measure here because of beer. It would sound daft going up to the bar and asking, " 568ml of beer please".

Erm, is the American pint the same as a uk pint?

:) So this is all about beer? I thought it was ale.

I think the pints were the same. England's gone Euro .. so I don't know.

[Gunny]

Funny Brits screwing up OUR language! :laugh: :poke:

You goof. The angles invented this crap. :laugh:

[Nonnie]

:) So this is all about beer? I thought it was ale.

I think the pints were the same. England's gone Euro .. so I don't know.

Nah, we've still got the pound, we don't want the Euro.

[jimnyc]

You goof. The angles invented this crap. :laugh:

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http://i.imgur.com/WPjV3NT.jpg

[Nonnie]

So if you want to check on something, you would check it out. If you wanted to write a cheque to pay a bill, you write a cheque.

If you wanted to make sure the cheque was filled out correctly, you would check the cheque. So in the USA you would check the check.

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