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    Quote Originally Posted by Rengori View Post
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    There are no taco places in the UK, not in the Northwest anyway, I don't know about London or the bigger cities. I don't even know what a taco is aaah~
    The Northern UK sounds awful.
    The entire UK is awful.

    Except for Northern Ireland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeldy View Post
    North west Engand is amazing :] I've been to the South and I hated it, the north is so friendly and bubbly, in MY town anyway ha. Liverpool is a different story. I agree with Quin, it just feels more homely.
    How good could it be without tacos?
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    Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
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    There are no taco places in the UK, not in the Northwest anyway, I don't know about London or the bigger cities. I don't even know what a taco is aaah~
    The Northern UK sounds awful.
    <s>The entire UK is awful.

    Except for Northern Ireland.</s>

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rengori View Post
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    North west Engand is amazing :] I've been to the South and I hated it, the north is so friendly and bubbly, in MY town anyway ha. Liverpool is a different story. I agree with Quin, it just feels more homely.
    How good could it be without tacos?
    hey, you don't have fish and chip shops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rengori View Post
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    North west Engand is amazing :] I've been to the South and I hated it, the north is so friendly and bubbly, in MY town anyway ha. Liverpool is a different story. I agree with Quin, it just feels more homely.
    How good could it be without tacos?
    England is great, I should know since I live here. And you can get taco's from taco bell. But only at an american base.

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    U's that don't make any sense for the win!

    And Scotand > England! ;D

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeldy View Post
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    North west Engand is amazing :] I've been to the South and I hated it, the north is so friendly and bubbly, in MY town anyway ha. Liverpool is a different story. I agree with Quin, it just feels more homely.
    How good could it be without tacos?
    hey, you don't have fish and chip shops.
    Erm...yeah we do.

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    North west Engand is amazing :] I've been to the South and I hated it, the north is so friendly and bubbly, in MY town anyway ha. Liverpool is a different story. I agree with Quin, it just feels more homely.
    How good could it be without tacos?
    hey, you don't have fish and chip shops.
    Erm...yeah we do.
    since when?! well they arnt as nice. No one does fish and chips like the English~

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    I spell it the way I've learned it! Got a problem with that? HUH?



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    i spell it as color. but i would use the variant for any word as well...

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    By gosh, you don't have <del>tacos</del> Taco Bells? Oh, the horror...
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kentarou View Post
    We did not say Tacos, Loony BoB, we said Taco Bell. The two are entirely incomparable if I do say so myself.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kentarou View Post
    We did not say Tacos, Loony BoB, we said Taco Bell. The two are entirely incomparable if I do say so myself.
    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'.
    Ah, I see. I apologize in that regard, then.

    And, as for the u, I generally agree, and I have the same habit of saying "Culler", rather than "Colo(u)r."

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