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billybrobby
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 Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:47 am Post subject: US-UK relations |
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| I'm watching the UK version of the office, and in one episode a guy uses the term "sloppy seconds". I found it strange because there are so many UK slang terms I've never heard of, and likewise for UKers hearing American stuff. So I have to wonder, why is it that both countries can agree on the term "sloppy seconds" but we can't agree on how to spell color? |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| It's a conspiracy involving the various dictionary publishers |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:58 am Post subject: |
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| You are stir crazy. Get out of the house now. Walk around the block. Go to another town over the weekend. |
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Interested
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Direct your question at the late Noam Webster. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| dogshed wrote: |
| You are stir crazy. Get out of the house now. Walk around the block. Go to another town over the weekend. |
That was a lot of inane threads all at once. Sorry. |
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Treefarmer
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| the reason that american spelling is all fucked up is because someone (it may have been thomas jefferson but i doubty that i just remember that from a drunk conversation) tried to make english phonetic because from the start the country was a mix from all over the world but they chose english as their first language (thank christ lol) |
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