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SciFiBoy on 20 October 2009

American's don't know how to spell



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darkhaven63 on 20 October 2009

It's not just the "u". It's also the "E" as well. Like we would spell judgment and the British spelling is Judgement

I am a bit confused with the British grammar rules for irregular verbs as well like "To knit"

American:Knit

British: Knitted 

But I sometimes use British spelling when I'm writing or sometimes typing
Other times I use it inadvertently.



   

Lord Flashheart on 20 October 2009

Edit:^ I see what you mean



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Rath on 20 October 2009

Also I far prefer the British version of 'ed'

Learnt > learned
Earnt > earned
Spelt > spelled

etc.



Kantor on 20 October 2009
darkhaven63 said:

It's not just the "u". It's also the "E" as well. Like we would spell judgment and the British spelling is Judgement

I am a bit confused with the British grammar rules for irregular verbs as well like "To knit"

American:Knit

British: Knitted 

But I sometimes use British spelling when I'm writing or sometimes typing
Other times I use it inadvertently.

I don't understand.

I knit

You knit

He knits

We knit

You knit

They knit

Isn't that the same in English and American?

And then in the past tense, I knitted, you knitted, he knitted, etc.



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AdventWolf on 20 October 2009

But this sounds weird :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:En-uk-aluminium1.ogg

we are so used to saying like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:En-uk-aluminum.ogg



Vetteman94 on 20 October 2009

Wow, I am actually insulted by alot of the posts in this thread.



Vetteman94 on 20 October 2009
kowenicki said:
@vetteman

And I'm insulted by the very existance of this thread and the inane and frankly idiotic questions being asked... so we are even.


not really



AdventWolf on 20 October 2009
Soleron said:

Colour is just better than color. You shouldn't have dropped the 'u'.

 

The absolute worst one of these is insure vs. ensure. When we ensure something, we make it happen. When we insure it, we get an insurance policy to pay out if it doesn't. There's a difference, and Americans use 'insure' for both meanings.

 

No we don't?



Vetteman94 on 20 October 2009
kowenicki said:
not really what?

not really even.  He asked a simple question and then here come the onslaught of Americans are lazy BS.  So no were arent even