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# Is that similar to
aluminium but with a black top?
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:50, archived)
# is "aluminium" another of those words that Brits and Yanks spell (and pronounce) differently?
can't be arsed to google it
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:52, archived)
# It is
although unusually it's one that you lot got right
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:55, archived)
# "you lot got right"
we aren't communicating well here
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:56, archived)
# haha, yeah, I could have put that better
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:58, archived)
# Oh I dunno
I thought the "unusually" bit hit the mark ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 14:59, archived)
# reading between the lines of these obscure remarks,
I have to assume that you (UK citizens) think that any different spelling of a word in another country is "wrong." If so, we don't see it that way.
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:02, archived)
# it's a labor of love. It makes us quite colorful really
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:08, archived)
# There's a catalog of differences
we shouldn't over analyze or lose our sense of humor, nor should we try to maneuver around it, we should instead find center ground
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:17, archived)
# that's how I see it--but I've been scolded too often by Brits and the like for using American spellings
(not that it would change me :D)
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 15:53, archived)
# Quite a lot of them make sense, and are due to deliberate spelling reforms that took root,
mostly proposed by Noah Webster, the Webster's dictionary guy. For some reason, the reforms on long, impressive-sounding technical words were generally accepted, while the reforms on ordinary short words (like getting rid of the silent e on have, live and give) weren't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_spelling_reform
Some of the differences are arbitrary, but it's difficult to find American spellings that are less rational than British ones.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 18:11, archived)