Survey posted 2003-09-24 10:45 by Henrik.

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Hey! British spelling of the word "favorite". I, for no good reason, prefer the British spelling of words. Like; colour... Shoot. I can't think of any other dual-spelt words. Oh well. Seeing as how this is waaaay off topic anyway, I (with my friends) am trying to form a club at my school to play videogames. Details as they appear.

honour, also a lot of words with s in the middle - or XXXXise / XXXXize.

What is the American equivilent to shoot?

As in, to shoot a gun? ... shoot.

Yeh, it's just that it seems he is saying that the UK and USA spell the word differently.

Shoot was just his interjection of "Aww man, I can't think of any other words"

Do they spell armor as "armour"?

Yes

Do you spell yoghurt like that? I've heard you miss out the H. Also, cars have tyres. We go travelling. We don't watch "movies in a theater" but "films in a cinema". We aren't "smart", more "intelligent".
Just a few to add to the list...

What's wrong with intelligent? I hear that sometimes... but, yeah, I guess I do hear "smart" much more often.

Also, on some internet games, I've seen "You loose!" before. Now, of course, I laughed because I thought the person couldn't spell... but, could this possibly be a different spelling of the word (for a different country?)

Completely OT: Has anybody noticed how much slower the HW1 calcs are!? It makes playing games a lot easier (and in some cases, a lot less exciting).

Wait, the last part is OT? Is not this whole thread about the English language just a touch OT?

-W-

No - 'loose' is just a typo

yoghurt (english english) = yogurt (american english)

i don't know how y'all pronounce it "over there."
i've always pronounced it with a long "o" like in yo-yo, and a hard "g" as in gertrude. and also, with stress on the first syllable.

do y'all still say "jolly" and "bloody" all the time?

I barely say jolly, but I frequently use bloody and 'oh bugger' and the likes.
What, what old boy!

Theatre, metre, most any word with "er". Colour is one as you pointed out, and most words spelled with "or".

Would "shoot" be spelled "shootte"? That's more like Old English, I guess. :-)

Actually, I think "Theatre" and "Theater" are different, but I could be wrong...and prolly only different in the British version...

Only other word I can think of that's different (or mainly British, anyhow) is "whilst"...and apparentally my school doesn't like it...put it in a paper, and she marked it, saying "use while instead"...excuse me for inserting a bit of cultural diversity in my paper about booting up my computer!

Saitei Shimatta Zakennayo hopes nobody here knows what his name means. :P

They are different:
Theater= The performance
Theatre= The building where theater is performed.

As an American, I use "theater" as in "movie theater", which falls into your definition for "theatre".

Maybe I'm just ignorant of the difference, or the American language just makes no distinction between the two words.

You really shouldn't have such a dirty name, you know. None of those words would be said on American TV, if they were in English.

Shimatta -> (Shi)ma(t)ta , for example.

No, that would be more like Middle English. Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon, is more like this:

Hwęt, we gardenana in geardagum %FEeodcyninga...

which is loosely translated to

Lo! we have heard about the might of the Spear-Danes' kings in the early days...

Thus begins the over 1000-year-old epic Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf.
http://www.heorot.dk/beo-ru.html (for fast connections)
http://www.heorot.dk/beo-rm.html (for slow connections)

Oops, missed an escape character... that should read "Žeodcyninga". :-Ž

<< I can't think of any other dual-spelt words. >>

But you used a dual-spelled word in that very sentence without even noticing. :-)

So I did. Gotta love my speech pattern. Or maybe only I do.. Hmmm...

spelt, for one.
colour favourite maximise

I prefer the British spellings, though I am an American (and was born in Southern California).

Likewise here.

Well... looks like British spellings of words are more commonly used than I thought. Intriguing. I wonder what other parallels there are betwixt the Brits and Americans.

'Twixt, twain, 'ere. - All words which should see more use