I've just been mocked for spelling Grammar wrong - do Americans spell it differently? Or is this guy a moron??
2007-09-04 03:56:58 · 15 answers · asked by Gem Gem 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I'm perfectly aware of all you smarty pants trying to outdo each other with grammatical correctness, but no one has mentioned whether Americans have a different spelling?
2007-09-04 05:24:04 · update #1
grammar is spelt the same way in the usa
2007-09-04 05:33:17 · answer #1 · answered by ~~Comboverguy~~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a translator and proofreader but I don't correct people on the net unless asked to because people that are not linguistically minded just don't care, it's a waste of time, and it just gets on their nerves. That said, poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation is disturbingly prevalent throughout the net, other people see it, and, knowing no better, copy it; and so the vicious circle goes on until poor English is the norm (if it's not already). I would have to quit my job to correct all the mistakes I see in a day's browsing: this page is full of mistakes (not including the intentional ones), as many from the preachers of good grammar as from the defenders of illiteracy; the lack or overuse of the apostrophe being the worst (Two Weeks' Notice or Two Weeks Notice? Yes, even Warner Bros get it wrong, so what hope for the rest of us?). And what can we do when even respected websites like the BBC are rife with mistakes? By the way, the spell check is useful but not perfect. I almost put "quite my job" because my fingers are always racing ahead typing common words before my brain reaches them to tell them what they should actually be typing. The spell check wouldn't have picked that up. It probably wouldn't pick up all poor punctuation either, e.g. the difference between it's and its. This site is actually not that bad compared to many forums I've seen, so perhaps some tolerance should be exercised.
2016-05-21 01:25:07 · answer #2 · answered by brinda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I am aware (from my friends in America), they spell grammar the same as we do. I am assuming that the idiot who told you differently was trying to leave out one of the "m"s, unless of course he was getting it mixed up with the suffix "-gram" which denotes something written or recorded and comes from the Greek "gramma" meaning "thing written" and so leaving off the "r" at the end. Either way, he is clearly mistaken!
2007-09-04 10:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by Cynical Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grammar is correct, but you should say "spelling the word grammar incorrectly" (not wrongly as someone said)
2007-09-04 04:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by Nickynackynoo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well your Q&A are private so I don't know how you spelled it before, but you got it right this time, although there's no reason to capitalize it.
2007-09-04 04:02:32 · answer #5 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grammar use your spell check to check out any spelling you aren't sure of.
2007-09-04 04:05:46 · answer #6 · answered by Miss Flame 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And "wrongly" is not a word that I've heard. You can say "incorrectly."
It's "grammar" and need not be capitalized unless it begins a sentence.
2007-09-04 04:45:44 · answer #7 · answered by VeggieTart -- Let's Go Caps! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he is! The spelling you show is right in the UK.
2007-09-04 04:04:35 · answer #8 · answered by sunshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am American, we spell it the same way. The guy is stupid.
2007-09-04 09:55:06 · answer #9 · answered by tubazrcool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grammar is how it is spelled here in the USA.
2007-09-04 09:19:51 · answer #10 · answered by John V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋