I spell it like this Page 2

Started by Zet October 7th, 2010 6:13 PM
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I spell them the right way, AKA the American way.
All of you British people are stupid.
The letter U in all of those words is very unneeded, and don't even get me started on all the words with the switched letters R and E (centre).



Just kidding, but obviously since I live in America, I spell them the American way. Americans who spell them the British way are lame and try way too hard.
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I use the American spelling because that's what I grew up with and that's what's been drilled into my brain over the years.

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Since I live in America most of my spelling is American spelling, but I picked up a lot of my spelling from books and sometimes a non-American standard spelling popped up and I ingrained that particular version of a word. That's why I'll instinctively write center as center but threatre as theatre. Sometimes I even have to stop and think about how I would spell some words, like defen(c/s)e, since I know both are correct, but can't always remember which is correct where.

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I always use the American English spellings, being from the States.

When I was little, though, I spelled gray as grey. I couldn't tell you if it's because I thought grey looked cooler (it kind of does), or if I misheard the a as an e. I'm not a very good speller without a spellcheck, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the latter.

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I go with the Australian way (which happens to be the British one). Except as a kid Pokemon made me think words were spelt like "center" and "color". :(
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I was taught the American spellings, so naturally I prefer them. Whenever I see the word "centre," part of me always wants to pronounce it "cen-tray." And I find that extra "u" in most of the alternate spellings to be pretty pointless, but that's just me.
^Exactly. American English FTW!

color and colour
center and centre
realize and realise
mom and mum

IMO, the "u" in "ou" is pointless and just unnecessarily draws out the word's spelling, the "tre" spelling could be pronounced "tray" as opposed to "ter" being pronounced "turr," and the (s/z) switch makes z seem like a useless letter (plus I would pronounce that like "realice")... However, "theatre" looks a bit more elegant than "theater" (though that's the only case of a word getting beautified by the British English spelling)

LOL...just yesterday I read on ZeldaWiki that someone from the Nintendo Wars Wiki developed coding so that everyone could select a certain spelling preference that could override the other in their account spellings, so they would never have to see the other "English's" spelling again. Apparently it was an issue bugging a lot of people. :cer_laugh: See it here: http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=415.msg7283#msg7283
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I always use American English; however, I am aware of the other spelling variations. I do have a bad habit using theatre instead of the vernacular theater. However, I use saber, center, etc. :C
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I spell things mostly the traditional way. Colour, favourite, realise, organise, mum etc. To me, some American spellings just look weird (eg. spelling defence as defense and grey as gray).

I'd like to point out:

Metre is a unit of measurement while meter is a device used for measuring something, for example, "I ran a couple of metres so I could see what the reading was on the electricity meter".

Same goes for centre and center. Centre is a gathering place (for example, a Pokémon Centre) while center is the middle of something. "I went to stand in the center of the Pokémon Centre."

I think most people don't really care about the difference, but I'm just throwing it out there.
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I'm Australian so I spell things like an idiot... adding extra letters and jumbling them up to be different like Centre instead of Center which would make more sense! Or favourite instead of favorite, mum not mom or organise not organized blah blah
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I spell things mostly the traditional way. Colour, favourite, realise, organise, mum etc. To me, some American spellings just look weird (eg. spelling defence as defense and grey as gray).

I'd like to point out:

Metre is a unit of measurement while meter is a device used for measuring something, for example, "I ran a couple of metres so I could see what the reading was on the electricity meter".

Same goes for centre and center. Centre is a gathering place (for example, a Pokémon Centre) while center is the middle of something. "I went to stand in the center of the Pokémon Centre."

I think most people don't really care about the difference, but I'm just throwing it out there.
ohh thanks.

I mainly use the American way to spell, because thats what I grew up with, but I may also mix some of the british in there well because I can, and I get confused but eh.
I also like to say Mum sometimes :3

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I use the British spelling, because that's where I'm from and what I'm used to. Apart from games that say they're localised to European and still use the American spelling of words. D; Oh, and I also say "Mam" rather than "Mum" or "Mom" but that's a North-Eastern thing, I think.
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I'm from England, so... colour, mum, defence etc. :)
I like the British spelling of words, so I'm happy. XD
This thread reminds me of a TV show where this guy had a habit of fixing everyone's typos, so he'd fix grafitti etc. :P