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Miss-spelling?

Postby Cdls » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:31 am

Not sure where this would really belong as it isn't a big deal, but I noticed a misspelling...


He is in his twenties and is efficiently working on project 'Farming to get spinage'. He wears nothing worth mentioning.



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Postby cantrlady » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:33 am

rklenseth wrote:spinach and spinage are the correct spellings for both. I asked my English teacher and some English speaking people spell it one way the others in other ways. It is one of those things that in the English language is messed up like tomatoes and tomatos.
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Postby Leo Luncid » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:35 am

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Postby Kreed » Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:42 am

Glad your hanging about to correct our spelling Cantrlady. :D

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Postby Oasis » Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:13 am

I thought tomatoe was the British/Canadian spelling, and tomato the American. Same with potatoe/potato, harbour/harbor, labour/labor, etc.
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Postby Nosajimiki » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:26 am

I'm American and I always see is spelled tomatoe and potatoe. *Shrugs* Harbor, labor, color and about any other -our word we do pretty consistantly spell differently though. :wink:
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Postby N-Aldwitch » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:27 am


Australian Words: (possibly British too?)
Habour
Labour
Organization
Potatoe
Colour
Centre
Manoeuvre


American Words:
Habor
Labor
Organisation
Potato
Color
Center
???Manoeuver???

Here are some examples..
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Postby N-Aldwitch » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:29 am

To add to that- I also have a fairly large dilemma deciding on what English language to use. It's the choice between American, or British.

Recently I've decided to stick with American, as that's the majority, though British/Australian I sometimes leak in too. :P
Nakranoth's "evil" character says:

"Thief! That's terrible! *shakes his head* That would hurt people's feeling if I did that."





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Postby sem » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:30 am

I thought potatoe was an american word invented by Dan Quayle.
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Postby deadboy » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:31 pm

Yeah X) that is one of the funniest clips of Dan Quayle I have seen, in American you can say potatoes, but not potatoe
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Postby Doug R. » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:34 pm

I spell things however I feel the most comfortable spelling them, as long as it is corrrect in some dialect of English. Fore example, I have always spelled gray "grey" (Thanks to the Crayola Corporation).

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Postby deadboy » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:37 pm

I take it gray is the American spelling? Because I've never seen it before :S
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Postby Doug R. » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:38 pm

deadboy wrote:I take it gray is the American spelling? Because I've never seen it before :S


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Postby Seeker » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:07 pm

N-Aldwitch wrote:
Australian Words: (possibly British too?)
Habour
Labour
Organization
Potatoe
Colour
Centre
Manoeuvre


Don't we spell Organisation with an s over here?
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Postby deadboy » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:09 pm

Yes :S, the English and Australians spell it with an s, and the Americans spell it with a z
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