In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > >"Guy Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dorothy > >snip the bit I have replied to > > > >: No please don't Dorothy!! It's good to know I'm not alone in disliking >: the tendency for American usage and spelling to creep into the English >: language. Nothing against Americans or the american language at all >: but it's not English I could make a very long list of my pet hates but >: a couple at the top would be the use of program rather than programme >: for anything other than computer programs. The BBC doesn't broadcast >: programs, it broadcasts programmes!! Second would be the use of nouns >: as verbs as in the yukky expression to "author a book". >: >: As for the confusion between similar words with entirely different >: meanings, don't get me started. >: >: Oh all right then....... >: >: Discrete and discreet >: Complimentary and complementary >: > >Its all a mater of education and some of us are not educated to the same >high standard as other. >I have never been able to spell and before the coming of PCs with spell >checks I would not write anything for fear or ridicule. This leads to a >downward or level spiral. You do not (should we use don't) write so you do >not get better . My spelling has improved more over the past 5 years than >in the previous 30 because I write things. >I am not bothered by people picking me up on my spelling or using wrong >words now, but I bet there are a lot of people who are. >By the way, you would never read my hand writing > Hi Brian
If you think your handwriting is bad you should see mine :-)} Just ask Connie. It's a good job we got to know each other in the days of email. If I'd had to hand write letters to her they might have been grammatically correct with good spelling but she wouldn't have been able to read them so the effort would have been wasted :-(} BTW I wasn't having a go at you in any way mate. I don't have a problem with dodgy spelling. It's grammar that really gets me going :-)} Cheers Guy -- Guy Morgan nb Virgo, WFB, Stockton GU Defend the waterways. Visit the web site www.saveourwaterways.org.uk
