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- juzsp, on 02/09/2009, -11/+106year you amracans cant spel in r langwidge propor, innit!
- emecks, on 02/09/2009, -5/+98I couldn't care less about americans spelling, but it riles me every time I hear:
"I could care less" - vacax, on 02/10/2009, -4/+9062% or 54% ... they should both be embarased.
- gtrob, on 02/10/2009, -11/+89The only words I need to know how to spell are USA and #1.
- scooterbaga, on 02/10/2009, -0/+61Spell check and auto-correct has decimated my spelling and typing skills. I have so many auto-correct entries, soon I'll be able to pound on the keyboard with a stump and strong feelings and be able to form coherent sentences.
- uptwolait, on 02/09/2009, -2/+59It ceases to amaze me.
- rolf, on 02/10/2009, -5/+57English spelling is beyond ***** up with absolutely no consistency in pronunciation vs spelling. Shouldn't tongue be tung? And then all the words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently - like the bow wow, or a bow and arrow? Or all the words spelled differently but pronounced the same? There, they're, and their. And what about the letter combination never prounced the same, like ou - thought, through, bough, and though?
If it weren't my native language, I'd probably have given up on writing it long ago. - DouglasQ, on 02/10/2009, -18/+60Don't feel bad Americans; we may be smarter than you, but we're all atheists who're going to hell, so you win in the end.
Aaahhh, sweet, heretical intellect. - fragileKnight, on 02/09/2009, -7/+43I feel to get the spelling correct one should pronounce the word correctly. Its not only an American's fault but about 75% of the world doesn't get the spellings correct
- onukenji, on 02/10/2009, -3/+36It's also unfortunate that Americans can't spell 'diet'
Do you think anyone gives a ***** about your teeth when you weigh 500 pounds? - rolf, on 02/10/2009, -10/+39@mousy,
I'm guessing you're British. "Our language". WTF? People took their language they spoke with them when they moved out of your country and then dominated America. The fact they went and your ancestors stayed doesn't make it your language. The fact isn't help that Britain effectively exported their language to all their other colonies.
Using your logic, English belongs to Germany because it's some germanic dialect that "you ***** ruined" long ago. - Feener, on 02/10/2009, -3/+32We didn't put those in, you took them out.
- kilroyy, on 02/10/2009, -0/+29I do not reject the overall point of the article, but 54% wrong vs 62% wrong isn't exactly implying a "grammatical high ground" for the Britons.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -2/+30Spel chk, spl chck, spll chek
- mycoplasma, on 02/10/2009, -0/+28I don't know why you're thanking me, but you're welcome.
- aladrin, on 02/10/2009, -0/+27Than. Than America.
This whole thread is fail. - alanocu, on 02/09/2009, -6/+33I could care less that you couldn't care less.
- BooLag, on 04/23/2009, -4/+30THEY HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOM!!!
- tavallai, on 02/10/2009, -0/+24From what I've seen among the younger folks (i.e. under 25), it's just as atrocious on both sides of the Atlantic.
Signed,
Arthur, King of the Britons
(What's a Briton?) - kaaBOOM, on 02/10/2009, -3/+26"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
-- Mark Twain - drunkenoaf, on 02/10/2009, -4/+26At work, we use Oxford English-- it's apparently traditional, proper English. But the suffix -ize is used almost all of the time; it's never -ise. British readers go nuts when they see that-- it's American. Actually it isn't; it's proper, traditional English that Americans kept, and the English changed.
- Tarantulus, on 02/10/2009, -0/+21you have more of everything, breasts (on both sexes), bingo wings, cankles and in the south, fingers and toes....
see, we can do stereotypes too! - Aitese, on 02/10/2009, -3/+24As a person born and raised in England, living in England I assure you we revel in ignorance. You must have stayed in a really nice town.
- ryan83189, on 02/10/2009, -1/+21Maybe they are being polite. They might not care, but their apathy could be even greater than it is now.
- DouglasQ, on 02/10/2009, -3/+23The only word you people CAN spell.
- nclbbs, on 02/10/2009, -0/+20Whereas America is happy to pretend the rest of world doesn't exist?
- Galgori, on 02/10/2009, -1/+21Its hilarious. In the words of Tommy Tiernan:
"Britian: Invading loads of different countries and getting upset when those people follow them back"
Living in britain, i've been told too many times i speak better english than most native british. English here is pretty much dead to be honest. I'm only 19 and i can't understand half the stuff 16 year olds say to each other cause of their "chav speak" :/ - Wade, on 02/10/2009, -1/+20*WHOOSH*
- jaybol, on 02/10/2009, -5/+24my mom made me write out all the spelling bee words 5 times each when I was younger. that's the end of my story. thanks.
- slugpellet63, on 02/10/2009, -1/+19Since always. Check the Oxford English Dictionary.
- rolf, on 02/10/2009, -3/+20Don't start doing that, because it's addicting.
- Dignin, on 02/10/2009, -1/+17I'll take Aluminum for a thousand...
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -4/+20Having lived in England for about 10 years, it's quite often that you realize the British know more words each from an early age than all the words you hear from all American movies combined in a lifetime.
But don't forget that's how they speak in every day life. It's traditional and natural to talk in England like a an American linguist if you're illiterate. - DouglasQ, on 02/10/2009, -6/+22I live in Australia. (win)
Though yeah, the rest of Britain loses. America has no chavs, only gang war, right-wingers, racism, gun disorder and political corruption. Still, at least it's not ***** chavs... - Brad12088, on 02/10/2009, -3/+19You're dumb if you think you can say any country is more intelligent than any other country.
- govsucks, on 02/09/2009, -8/+23Unless its Ebonics, then we are proud of it.
- computershack, on 02/10/2009, -0/+15Because they were taught that spelling correctly was a requirement whereas here in Britain, apparently the latest educational dictat states that as long as what's written is understandable, it doesn't matter. This applies even through to degree level and some of the most illiterate ***** I've ever seen posted has been from graduates.
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -0/+15OH SNAP
- Azerael, on 02/10/2009, -3/+17Add people saying 'addicting' in place of 'addictive' to that list. Makes me want to kill small children every time someone does that.
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -4/+18At least we don't have chavs. (win)
- GMH24, on 02/10/2009, -0/+13Yeah, more phonetic languages like Spanish, for example, are easier to write correctly.
- fuxxx, on 02/10/2009, -0/+13Since before america was a country
- inactive, on 02/10/2009, -2/+15No, but you have rednecks.
- spaceman813, on 02/10/2009, -5/+17How come non-native speakers can usually spell A LOT BETTER than english mother-tongue speakers? Take any german, dutch, scandinavian, italian who speaks english fluently.... They never spell words wrong, do they? They know the difference between "your" and "you're", "it's" and "its" and so on.
- factsahoy, on 02/10/2009, -3/+15What a surprise. Reading through the posts on here, one finds that 75 percent of the people can't spell "you're."
- chaoswings, on 02/10/2009, -0/+12It is in fact a word...
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spelt
–verb
a pt. and pp. of spell 1 .
–noun
a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used chiefly for livestock feed. - Todynho, on 02/10/2009, -5/+17Q. Since when is "spelt" a word?
A. Since way before Americans started coloUrfully bastardiSing the English language. - anonymous1986, on 02/10/2009, -0/+12hypocrites*, you hypocrite
- aladrin, on 02/10/2009, -4/+16
bur⋅glar⋅ize
/ˈbɜrgləˌraɪz/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [bur-gluh-rahyz] Show IPA Pronunciation
verb, -ized, -iz⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to break into and steal from: Thieves burglarized the warehouse.
–verb (used without object)
2. to commit burglary.
Also, especially British, bur⋅glar⋅ise.
Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; burglar + -ize
You see that? You have a British form of it! It's a word whether you like it or not. - darkfish, on 02/10/2009, -0/+12@unbenamtlunbenamtl
You forgot the /sarc at the end of your comment - or you don't really know English. Try these on for size:
Cough (Kof)
Rough (Ruf)
bough (bou)
through (throo)
I am using the "easy" phonetic spellings in parentheses.
They all use the same "ough" suffix but each is pronounced differently. -
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