Where do Americans get off?

Question

telling us Brits how to spell. It was our language first, wasn't it?

Answer 1

Why don't you go F*** your mum. cheerio.

Answer 2

Well...if you must know...

Most of the differences between England English and American English came about from the revolutionary war 1776- or so...

At that time anything that was England/British was not liked by patriots and seemed to be a distinguishing factor between the American Patriots and English Loyaltists. One of the prime examples is the eating ettiquette. In Europe, and correct me if I am wrong, the knife is held in the left hand while the fork is in the right to stablize the food...where as here in upperclass America it is opposite. That was one of the secret signs back in the day the seperate the two countries even fundamentally.

The same can be said with English and its spelling...the "u" in colour and favour (so on and so forth) was elliminated as superfluous, merely because it was an English trait of the Language of English. There are quite a few of these odd english language traits that are subtle but existant.

Next time you ruin into one of those Americans that claim you are spelling things incorrectly just call them an ecclectic Loyaltist, I'm betting they won't even undxerstand the insult...since no one in this country studies their own history.

I'm sorry you ran into those dolts that have no concept of civilized culture.

Answer 3

You probably already know this, but there are a lot of words that are spelled differently in British English than in American English. I have a friend who is Irish, and when she went through college, her professors were always correcting her "English" spelling. A lot of words are commonly known, such as "defence" ("defense"), but not all. I was surprised that the criticism came from professors. So you made a good point here. But, I think you don't have a monopoly on the language any more. It has grown so much over the years. English has more words than all the other European languages combined - more than 600,000 words.

Answer 4

Well, I'd say that the language has actually evolved over time. Now the way we spell some words may be different than how you spell words. If you are used to one way and we are used to one way I don't think we should tell you Brits how to spell and you shouldn't tell us how to spell because we are two different cultures. Tomato, tomato...potato..potato.

Answer 5

When u Brits learn how to pronounce SCHEDULED w/o sounding as if your mouths were full of ..say marmalade, then we can move on to the chapter on spelling.... ok ??? Now go brew some TEA, you know, that stuff we threw in
Boston harbor rather than OBEY your silly demands. Just shut up, ok??

All my love, bob

Answer 6

It's Noah Webster's fault. I think after the Revolutionary War, Mr. Webster started changing spelling on words. We also stole "God Save the Queen" and renamed it "My Country Tiss of Thee". We were probably just pis*ed off back in the day!

Answer 7

It annoys me too , having worked in a scientific background I resent changing the spelling of certain compounds and chemicals just because the american spelling is now the "standard" - sulfur is and always will be spelt SULPHUR to me.

Answer 8

Oh dear Goddess ! you do prevail. An interesting factoid, the North American Native (Indian) male has the largest recorded male member. Perhaps it would be something for you to investigate.

Answer 9

LOL! I had to teach American English out in Taiwan and I'm a Brit.....tell me about it!

Answer 10

Sounds like someone has a problem with Americans

Answer 11

Yeah,

I've been for job interviews in USA and had to re-write my CV (resume) so they didnt think I was an idiot who couldnt spell what they thought was English.