U's that don't make any sense for the win!
And Scotand > England! ;D
I spell it the way I've learned it! Got a problem with that? HUH?
i spell it as color. but i would use the variant for any word as well...
By gosh, you don't have <del>tacos</del> Taco Bells? Oh, the horror...
Last edited by KentaRawr!; 10-22-2007 at 11:44 AM.
There's a really big grammatical error in American English. If you quote something over there, you have to put the period/comma punctuation inside the quote regardless of whether or not the punctuation/comma belongs to the quote. [Further details]
But back to spelling conflicts.
Fence.
Sense.
Defence or Defense?
This is the one that I always find most amusing as both English and America are inconsistent with their spellings in this regard. Unless America has started using the first of these words as 'fense' without telling me.
OOC: EDIT: On the taco note, yes, there are many Mexican restaurants in Edinburgh alone that will give you quality Mexican food - often including tacos. Taco Bell tacos are inferior as far as I'm concerned to a taco made in a proper restaurant rather than a takeaways. And yes, I've had Taco Bell tacos.
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We did not say Tacos, Loony BoB, we said Taco Bell. The two are entirely incomparable if I do say so myself.
Edit: To stay on topic, however, the subject of how English and American spellings is indeed quite curious, such as the anonymous U pointed out earlier, which, apparently, didn't make it overseas on the Mayflower.
OOC: No, the original question specifically stated taco places like Taco Bell, not Taco Bell itself. Also, the question of whether we even eat tacos at all in the UK was posed.
To be fair, regarding the 'u', it's not like every 'o' is said with an 'o' sound rather than an 'uh' sound anyway. Cuh-luhr. Maybe cah-lahr. But certainly not coh-lorr. Personally, I say 'colour' as I would say 'culler'.
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