Cathy in NZ writes:
<<I also have a English/American/other problem :-) >>
Holly replied:
Me, too :) I spent 2 years in Australia, parts of 7-9 grades. I well
remember taking a spelling test my first day in Australian school...and
FLUNKED it because a) I
how time flies along with your archival brain I lived in Aussie for a
couple of years in the early 70s and had a devil of a time with
pronunciation there as well - dance and danse and chance and chanse. I
always know when an Aussie is on the phone now they say these words soooooo
different to me :-)
when I was living in Britain my 2 biggest trip up with pronunciation were
pin and pen and sex and six - and it was made even worse one of my jobs at
the store I worked in was to order the stationery! I only wanted 6 pens but
the guy on the phone was laughing sooooooo much. And in the end I could
have to say "half a dozen **** [brand] biros" or something along those lines
Heaven knows what an American or a Cannuck would think I was saying if I
chose to come visiting now.
And Louisa I feel for you toooooooo as much Americanismis flowing down
"gotten" is not really a word commonly used here but I find it creeping
into RL things. And as for Net words like LOL and even :-) which usually I
have to put <grin> when writing for my Guild newsletter as I don't think
non Internet users have much knowledge of.
cathy
who does get more time to do art and craft stuff nowadays and am working on
some crazy coathangers some of which have background base fabrics which
were woven :-)
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