View Poll Results: Amercan or Commonwealth spelling

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  • Commonwealth, all hail double letters

    26 36.11%
  • American, no unnecessary 'u's

    23 31.94%
  • I use a mix of both

    20 27.78%
  • 1337 ftw !!!1!1!11!

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Thread: Which spelling do you use?

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    I ususally try and use the commonwealth spelling (mother's canadian), but since I can't spell for crap, I don't know what actually comes out. It could be American, it could be Commonwealth, it could be wrong.
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    I'm a stupid American. Color, color, color.

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    colour.....

    Sephiro this here.

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    American.

    Flavor. Color. The.

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    I'm lazy. Who cares about the extra letters, or switching some letters?

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    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    American. But I occassionally use Commonwealth to piss off/suck up to my teachers.

    As far as scientifics goes, I prefer the metric system, simply because I don't have to do any work. Moving the decimal place is only slightly less cumbersome than multiplying stuff by two.

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    I use the correct spelling of words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic View Post
    I use the correct spelling of words.
    Correct is subjective to the jursidiction. You bieng wrong is, however, objective! ha! Colour that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bipper View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic View Post
    I use the correct spelling of words.
    Correct is subjective to the jursidiction. You bieng wrong is, however, objective! ha! Colour that!
    LOL GAY COLOUR.

    American English is wrong. Jurisdiction can bite my ass. You want American? Speak whatever the hell the Natives spoke before you bastards wiped them out.

    (Not you as in you, you as in the bastard English who went there, and then colonised. Bastard English.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF View Post
    I usually use American spellings. Unecessary 'u's are about as straight as marick, and the letter 'z' is clearly far superior to 's'.

    Furthermore! Sidewalk is a better word than pavement, and soccer and football is much more convenient than football and American football. Plus. calling it soccer pisses people here off to no end

    ps the metric system is gay as well.
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    And besides, we're lazy and don't wanna switch. Old habits die hard...

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    It varies. At school I use the English way of spelling, just because that's how we're told to do, but I'm sure that I sometimes mix in a little American here in the forums.

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    I spell words with a u and my Geologist professor always points it out. It's funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roto13-ness View Post
    Commonwealth mostly. Being Canadian and all. America is the only place that really uses American spelling. Because they like to be wrong. The same reason they don't use the metric system. Contrary-pants'.
    Americanese. But yeah, the whole not-using-metric thing is stupid. I think the 'u' is unnecessary, honestly.

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    American. I'm just used to it. Thats what I was taught.

    i'm giving up,
    on the entire human race....

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    Thanks to the fact that I worked on a game made by a french company where the interface for english was all written in american english I speak both and write both fluently (I speak american fluently due to my first serious g/f being american) but I kind of prefer to mix it up

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