Kantor said:
highwaystar101 said:
Rath said:
SimonSaysFYou said:
So all you foreigners, please explain why you add a 'u' to words like favourite (favorite), colour (color), and others? The words don't have the short o sound when you say them. I understand that english is a complex language with complex sounds, dialects, and irregularities...but this I've never been able to understand.
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American English is the variation away from standard English, not the other way around. The American's removed the vowel for the same reason they invented the atrocity 'thru'.
Also I have a question for the Americans; why the hell can't you just adopt the metric system?!
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Just thought I would post the map of countries that have yet to adopt the metric system...
Yep so it's pretty much USA, Liberia (aka. USA part 2) and Burma.
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Britain hasn't fully accepted it yet. All road signs are in miles, and speedometers and speed limits are in MPH. But that would be nearly impossible to change.
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No, not impossible, just too expensive to be bothered with.
