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Old 01-02-2003, 10:33 PM   #1
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Does anyone have a list of the (more common) words American and Canadians spell differently?

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Old 01-02-2003, 10:38 PM   #2
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Yeah, the spell America, "Amourica, eh?"

Okay, that wasn't funny

I believe that those crazy canucks commonly end words in "our" that we nutty yanks spell with "or." Not all, though. For example, Honour, flavour, colour... And Canada is not the only place, mate. same goes for Austrailia and South Africa, and many other places.
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Old 01-03-2003, 12:23 PM   #4
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THE BRITISH ARE COMING THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
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Old 01-03-2003, 07:43 PM   #5
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THE BRITISH ARE COMING THE BRITISH ARE COMING!
Oh, and?....

I love the British. They make good potatoes.
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Old 01-28-2003, 04:36 PM   #6
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I love the British. They make good potatoes.
Yes they do. My pastor's British. He's awesome. He can't cook though. Once he burned frozen pizza. And then he forgot to put sugar in apple pie. Erm... I'm on a tangent here...

The "our" is the English way of spelling things. Heaven knows what languae you're all speaking :kroll:
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Heaven knows what languae you're all speaking :kroll:
We speak the American English language.
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No seriously though, why did Americans feel the need to change the original spelling of certain words. Was it incredibly liberating to omit the "u"? Maybe they thought that since they got their own country, they'd also try to kick the English while they were down by ridiculing their own language? LOL crazy.
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We did it for the sake of Arkansas... For them, the shorter the better.
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No seriously though, why did Americans feel the need to change the original spelling of certain words?
They originally did it as a way of distinguishing themselves as not being English after the American Revolution. Although, Art may have a point there...
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We did it for the sake of Arkansas... For them, the shorter the better.
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Old 02-08-2003, 01:25 PM   #12
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They originally did it as a way of distinguishing themselves as not being English after the American Revolution. Although, Art may have a point there...
It's the same reason that stereotypically, most Americans drink coffee instead of the British custom of drinking tea. The Boston tea party sort of kicked off the whole coffee kick...
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It's the same reason that stereotypically, most Americans drink coffee instead of the British custom of drinking tea. The Boston tea party sort of kicked off the whole coffee kick...
Pretty much. The only reason for it was to separate themselves from being British.



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They've got nothing on the Irish, though...
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They've got nothing on the Irish, though...
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We did it for the sake of Arkansas... For them, the shorter the better.
Actually, that's not far off. People in the southern colonies (and later states) tended to spell things a little differently (ignorance or laziness? I'm banking on lazy...). Eventually, these spellings just crept up north.
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I'm totally guilty of spelling almost everything "or" Sorry guys, I'm a traitor! Or should I say, trait-our?
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