English vs. American

It's the Union Jack, the Union Flag is just pretentious twaddle. *rolleyes*

I rememebered another:

UK: Sulphur
US: Sulfur

There are loads of scientific terms apelled differently, but the American ones seem to be prevailing ... *Sigh*

Yeah, the Union Jack debate gets a bit silly. It is supposed to be the Union Flag, but that sounds rubbish and has the potential for confusion. So Union Jack is the accepted one generally now.

I refuse to spell 'sulphur' 'sulfur', no matter what prevails. That just looks awful. Phonetic spelling really is yuck!

OK, I want to know, if these ( ) are brackets in English, then what are these [ ]?

heheh...snogging....

Lol, I lived for six years in the U.S., so I got really used to American Then here, in Poland, in English class, they use English English, not American. It's kind of irritating, since I'm used to and prefer American, but because of those classes, I write half English half American, lol. The spelling, wording, etc.

American rules... *Slinks away before they kill me*

Pushca wrote:OK, I want to know, if these ( ) are brackets in English, then what are these [ ]?

They don't really have a name. I suppose we just call them square brackets.

I call it the living room

I've always found American spellings to be rather jarring, I really don't like them. They force my brain to do a double take every time i see them.
English spellings sit much better with me.

:S Never heard it called the union flag before, i've always called it the union jack

Like I said, the Union flag is pretentious twaddle. ^^ I believe the politically correct lobbyists (and I have NO idea how to spell that ...) got into it at some point. I forget why.

Regarding the brackets, I'm not sure. Possibly square brackets are called parentheses? I dunno, I just call them square brackets. Since they're only real yused in maths and quotations, I haven't come across them all that much ...

I've always hated American spellings. We really killed the English language.

Anywho, I was raised to use the REAL (English) spellings. And I get marks off in school for it, which really ticks me off. =/

Let me see if can think of some.

Lorry - Truck
Petrol - Gas
Lift - Elevator
Maths - Math
Anti-clockwise - Counter-clockwise
Antenna - Aerial
Line - Queue
Pram - Stroller
Post - Mail

The one that really gets me is when I'm reading something American and scientific and I come across 'aluminum', instead of 'aluminium'. It just doesn't sound right.

I sometimes use American words if the English one doesn't sound right, like trash/garbage can brings to mind something metallic, where as dust bin just sounds so... limp XD I have the tendency to use 'side-walk' instead of 'pavement' too, although that's only in writing, never in speech.

Eloquence wrote:Antenna - Aerial
Line - Queue

Just to point out - we use both 'aerial' and 'queue' as often, if not more than 'antenna' and 'line'.

I never use line so not sure where that comes from and we use both post and mail. I do anyway.

*laughs* The sad thing is that I have a tendency to spell things the (British) English way, so I have trouble trying to figure out what's wrong when Word underlines my words. Oh, America. *sigh*

I had one English teacher who didn't mind if we used English spellings rather than American spellings, which I thought was amazing. It really did enhance some pieces. I think Mesh was glad he didn't mind -- she rarely uses the American way of spelling things. It's amusing to watch, actually.

I have to admit, I think I'm ready to just drop American spelling altogether. French got me started, and now American spelling seems so... dull.