modesty

[Fozzer]

After the aforesaid accident....Look Ma No Jam!!!!!


Humour - My spell checker must be on the fritz. It's telling me that humour is spelled wrong. That certainly put a grey cast to my day! Or is it gray?

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Its always worth remembering that there are two types of English Language...

The one where I come from, in England...

...and the one where "others" come from...(USA, etc).

Make sure that you have the correct Dictionary (English/English, English/USA) installed for your Spell Checker, for your country!

My English Spell Checker says "Humour" is OK!... and "Tyres" are wonderful .....and today is very "Grey" and overcast!... ...!

Paul... ...!

[logjam]

Always did have trouble speakin English proper, like wot you does!

[MASABI TROOPER]

Trooper

[OldAirmail]

After the aforesaid accident....Look Ma No Jam!!!!!


Humour - My spell checker must be on the fritz. It's telling me that humour is spelled wrong. That certainly put a grey cast to my day! Or is it gray?

Who was it that said -
"England and America, two countries divided by a common language."

[Fozzer]

As the majority of the immigrants to North America (now the USA) were of Germanic origin, I'm always surprised that the dominant language was/is not German rather than "English"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigratio ... ted_States

Paul...fascinated by language... ...!

[Hawkeye07]

Mah spell checker says it's Yuma and you can travel the USA on a ... now wait for it . . . a Greyhound 'bus. Harr harrr harr.

Ah yes, the noble Greyhound. the dog that is. The original primary use of Greyhounds, both in the British Isles and on the Continent of Europe, was in the coursing of deer. Hence the proper spelling of "Grey".

[logjam]

Actually, it’s no coincidence that the USA was first populated by Germanics.Please
Read slowly
And carefully...

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.




As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".




In the first year, "S" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.




The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.


There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.


In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.


Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.


Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.


By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".


During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "O" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer , ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.


Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi TU understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.


Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.


If zis mad you smil, pas on to oza pepl.

[Fozzer]

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That probably explains the popularity of "Texting" language....

u no wot i meen... ...!

Paul... .. .. ..!

P.S. Saved the explanatory text in Logjam's post above!...Excellent!.... ...!

[MASABI TROOPER]

Beautifull sount of this new Anglogerman.............

Trooper

[Bass]

Erschütterung......Gut gemacht!