I thought the world of Oz had adopted American spelling. The Australian
Labor (sic) Party certainly has.
John
On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:07:00 +0100, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
G'day Eleanor,
Wading into this thread blindly...
To pick you up on your first two examples of the different spellings
of words. In these parts they are not just spelling variations, those
words have vastly different meanings.
If I were to read the sentence "I need to cheque the tires on my car",
I think "what the..."
cheque: What I hope to get from the tax man
check: What you should do to make sure your camera isn't set to ISO
3200 when shooting macro
tire: what happens to some people in the Pentax v's Canon upgrade path
threads
tyre: round black rubber thingies on your car/bike/truck(lorry)
Honestly though, I don't care how other parts of the English speaking
world spell things. What does get up my nose is when I'm using a piece
of software that has a spell checker and it tells me I'm spelling
"centre" , "colour" or various other words wrong.
And that's all I have to say about that :-)
Dave
On 5/28/05, E.R.N. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
By "spelling" I mean cheque vs. check, tire vs. tyre, and is there a "u"
in colour, honour, armour, etc., and where do you put the R in centre?
<snip>
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