02-03-2018, 19:46
(This post was last modified: 02-03-2018, 19:52 by St Charles Owl.)
(02-03-2018, 12:25)talkSAFT Wrote: ps St.Charles: "humor" is spelt "humour" in the country of its origin!
Tell that to my ipad and its predictive text function!!! Gave up many years ago trying to correct it on this forum!!
(02-03-2018, 14:53)4evaabaggie Wrote: Talksaft, technically SCO is correct, the yanks don't understand our HUMOUR so their HUMOR requires canned laughter to show you when to laugh.
With America producing most of the film, tv, computer software and popular entertainment they seem to favour themselves, their lazy spelling of English gets accepted as the norm, their interpretation of history, like the vile, becomes twisted. America defeated the Roman empire, America defeated King Harold at battle in 1066, America did everything in WW1 and WW2, we were not even there ...... but that's changing the subject.
Problem is its not really lazy spelling, its how they have done it since the 1800's so its been around for a while!! Remember they don't follow the Oxford English Dictionary, they use Webster's Dictionary. He created his dictionary and was a proponent of simplifying the English language and in some cases take it back to how it used to be. The words color and center for example were used back in Shakespeare's days, so its not all the Yanks fault. But for quite a bit of the population over here simplifying something is a distinct benefit!!!