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Darn browsers won't play the music all the time... but a 'hard refresh' might do it...

Silly, I know... :p Just a time killer.

g'nite!

Made me smile - thank you.

No music, but maybe that's a good thing... ;-)

Spelling mistake though - you left a "u" out on the first word. No need to change it, 331 million americans won't notice, but 67 million brits might... ;-)

Thanks for a bit of fun.

Americans decided long ago that only a Brit would add letters like a U in colour that had absolutely no effect on how the word was pronounced, and we got rid of them sparing billions and billions of U's from an unproductive and useless life.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Americans decided long ago that only a Brit would add letters like a U in colour that had absolutely no effect on how the word was pronounced, and we got rid of them sparing billions and billions of U's from an unproductive and useless life.

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Amen!!!!

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Americans decided long ago that only a Brit would add letters like a U in colour that had absolutely no effect on how the word was pronounced, and we got rid of them sparing billions and billions of U's from an unproductive and useless life.

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A certain young lady would like a word with you.

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... from an unproductive and useless life.

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Srely 'from an nprodctive and seless life.'? And you cannot even pronounce "buoy"! (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pro...n/english/buoy). And Noah Webster didn't alter tongue to 'tung', which is why Xara correctly refers to its Online Content Catalogue.

The gloves are off. Good ol' SA, so inconsistent.
Betold, there is a logic to differentiating between endings that sound like -ower (as in hour) but if you went totally phonetic you would lost a lot of the origins and associations in their etymology. Hour would be written 'hower' and then people might assume it is the comparative of how and start inventing a superlative 'howest'.

Acorn ;)

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Linguists estimate that a working knowledge of American globish needs just 1,500 words, not even 1 per cent of the content of the Oxford English Dictionary. The rest is wasted.

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Our "newspaper", the Daily Mail, is well versed in near-libelous verbage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-English.html.

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Americans decided long ago that only a Brit would add letters like a U in colour that had absolutely no effect on how the word was pronounced, and we got rid of them sparing billions and billions of U's from an unproductive and useless life.

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I think that's rich - you Americans can't even pronounce aluminium correctly. Where do those letters go when an American says it?

;-)

@cmpan1, quick, do another with the elusive U before half of TG start donning long red coats.

Actually, don't bother. I just realised I'm in Australia and we had nothing to do with that little tiff.

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@cmpan1, quick, do another with the elusive U before half of TG start donning long red coats.

Actually, don't bother. I just realised I'm in Australia and we had nothing to do with that little tiff.

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Does that mean Aussie's don't know how to spell either LOL:D

Hmmm. When I clicked on the link in the first thread, here is what I saw:

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al-yoo-min-ium is better than aloom-inom.

And it is faster to fly an air-plane than an aireo-plane. But I quibble.

that would be aero- plane

incidently, colour would be spelt culler where I come from... if you want to go phonetic, at least get it right ;)

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@cmpan1, quick, do another with the elusive U before half of TG start donning long red coats.

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Not too many people realise that the revolution only succeeded because of those pesky French..

mais oui - and they almost adopted french as their official language

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Not too many people realise that the revolution only succeeded because of those pesky French.

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Now there is a language with has way too many superfluous letters.

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Now there is a language with has way too many superfluous letters.

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I think you may have forgotten about German, Gary.

The French language is beautiful.

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Now there is a language with has way too many superfluous letters.

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Too colourful for you? :D

Edit: perhaps I should have said, “too much couleur”.