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| Subject: What do you mean Canada has its own spelling system? | |
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] Date Posted: 20:16:28 01/05/05 Wed In reply to: Andrew 's message, "facts...and misreadings" on 19:26:01 01/05/05 Wed I live here, I should know, we use the following British spellings: colour, centre, pyjamas, programme, enclyclopaedia. The only American spelling Canadians have adopted is 'tire' instead of 'tyre' and 'organization' instead of 'organisation'. I would say that our spelling is mostly British with a couple of Americanisms. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: David (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 02:07:06 01/06/05 Thu Australia largely uses British spelling, the only American spelling that I have noticed that has really caught on is spelling "programme" as "program", I suspect this is largely due to Bill Gates and Microsoft. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Andrew(Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 06:12:12 01/06/05 Thu hope no one thought that chap who was arguing earlier was me...and i think Canada should adopt all British spellings, mainly because it would make it easier for schools and for the rest of us, instead of people thinking 'should i spell it plough or plow? tyre or tire? gaol or jail? standardise or standardize? besides using a 's' in words like standardise makes more sense (you dont see people spelling 'arise' like 'arize') [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (London) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:07:03 01/06/05 Thu The 'makes sense' argument can't apply to English spellings. That's why the American spelling reforms were so pointless: either English is written phonetically or it isn't - there's no point in mucking around with a few words, because however hard you try to spell 'plough' as 'plow', there are still words like 'although' and so forth which would be difficult to change because of their more frequent usage. I think that we should just accept English spellings as they are, and never mind any attempt to systematise the blighters. I would, however, point out, that the use of the letter zed in such words as 'surprize' and 'organize' is in fact the older usage. The 18th Century ship of a familiar name was the HMS Enterprize, not the Enterprise. In this instance, as with many others, the Yanks are purists and we're corrupt. This doesn't, however, apply to colonial idiocies such as 'color' and 'ax'. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:29:09 01/06/05 Thu There are simply too many accents and thus many ways to pronounce the words. Attempting to make spelling phonetic for one accent will automatically make it LESS phonetic for pretty much all of the others. English spelling is sort of like the monarchy: people may say it is anachronistic or irrational, but it is the same for everyone and it is one of the links that keeps us together. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Andrew [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:43:35 01/06/05 Thu "the only American spelling that I have noticed that has really caught on is spelling "programme" as "program" I doubt anyone uses the spelling "gaol" anymore in Australia. Or very few. Jail is the US spelling. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:34:33 01/06/05 Thu Canadians still call the last letter of the alphabet 'zed' while the Americans call it 'zee'. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:48:09 01/06/05 Thu [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:23:54 01/06/05 Thu [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 10:22:59 01/07/05 Fri [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |