I also have a English/American/other problem :-)
Yes I speak and write English and spell in that version
But online where many of the list people are from America I have learnt how
to spell and write in American English.
As for my American spellcheck - I often have to keep typing the word wrong
until I can "see" a word that looks like what I want.
i.e. we spell Catalogue and Americans spell it Catalog AND then there are
the Dish Cloths which we call Tea Towels. A dishcloth here is some you wipe
the bench with. Oops I mean counter top :-)
Then there is local slang. Many of my list friend know exactly what I mean
when I say "arvo" but if I say "how is your Mum?" I'm then asked
"what.......?" Mum in America means to keep mum i.e. keep it a secret. And
yes we use that secret mum here as well.
My fav online place for converting back to Imperial weights is
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
the most amusing I like about the Internet is how we can find out sooooooo
much about these little things but inadvertently just writing something
that seems sooooo normal to ourselves and finding out about things that
never happen here. Like when someone talks about bears roaming around the
yard.......wow a bear in your yard! Only in a zoo here. Or even when you
talk about Snowfalls in December - let alone Snow at all.........we don't
do Snow on ground up here. Oh I see it out of spray cans, artificial
snowfields & on Christmas Cards :-)
must away and get dinner on this nice SpringTuesday evening........yep,
even that we are ahead of the rest of the world :-)
Creative Fibre NZ - come on in and see what
Weavers - Spinners - Knitters - Feltmakers etc
are doing http://www.creativefibre.org.nz/
Compliments of Cathy51 from New Zealand
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