It's spelled colour, you burbles!

Colour probably comes from when english was frenchified, I mean it's a lot closer to couleur, but we don't pronounce it like that anymore so maybe you guys should drop it 8)

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Originally Posted by peegies

Why do americans not remove the superfluous 'u' from the word 'your' ?

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Because it's not superfluous, it's from the stem 'you' :p and if that u was gone it would be 'yo'

There are some people who pronounce your as 'yor' (I guess I might do that about 40% of the time?) but I think the majority probably say 'yur' :p

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Originally Posted by Pureghetto

How many of you Americanos spell using the english spelling rules? I'm just curios. See I can spell like an american too!

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You spelled curious wrong.

Wait, curios doesn't send my Spell Check thingy off...

Well, I guess I spell Curious with English Spelling Rules, then.

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well, my dear, that would be because a curio is a cabinet you put stuff in to diplay, like ornamental plates and stuff. we have one. at least, thats how i spell it. i dont think it querrio or something gay like that

http://oz.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/1997-02-28/curio.jpg

Either - EYE-ther. English has Germanish roots, therefore you should pronounce the last letter when it comes to ei/ie. The exceptions being the usual i before e, except after c words.

I don't like it when people say "neither this or that". It's neither this NOR that, bellend.


However, I don't moan at people, because language is a personal thing. Just because some other people understand you doesn't mean that you have no right to make it your own in some way.

i iz talking how i iz feelz leik. meh

That's not talking, that's writing. WRITING LIKE A PILLOCK. :mad2:

lol. jk. i talk with a sorta french accent (cuz im french-ish :spin: ) so i pronounce everything kinda like coleur. :) go me

That's so cool. :bigsmile:

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Originally Posted by ReloadPsi

As a citizen of Great Britain, and having been a linguistics student in the past, I will vouch for the fact that American spellings make more sense than British spellings whether you like it or not.

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Helloooo, Mr. Former linguistic student! Your assistance is needed in the Study Hall forum.

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Um, that was just an unnecessarily pretentious term for "someone who did French and German to AS level" :P

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Originally Posted by Pureghetto

Why do americans not remove the superfluous 'u' from the word 'your' ?

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Because it's a long vowel sound.

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Originally Posted by Dyslexicon

lol people mentioned rules when talking about english lol

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Haha, well said!

i was thinking that as my minor. im really good w/ languages. spanish sux though i hate it. but everybody in my town is like mexicans. farms=mexican immigrants. *sigh* i hate walking down the street cuz theyre all like "hola, chicka. como esta" and im all like" eh heh heh leave me be!" lol.

I have absolutely no problem with the English language. It's Southern English that I am afraid of.

i hate spanglish. thats what all my bf's family speaks ;_; o.o *sob* they interchange words from english to spanish. one would think that i would pick up some spanish this way, mais non! *sob* i hate fiestas. every...freaking....weekend.... oh the horrors! taquilla everywhere!

tequila?

English isn't my native language so I probably spell some things the English way and others the American way. Apparently we're only supposed to use one of them... :eek:

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I have absolutely no problem with the English language. It's Southern English that I am afraid of.

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Those knobheads from London do tend to talk like... well, knobheads, really.

I live in the South-West. We're awesome. South-East = gay. :D