Poll: Do you prefer American English spelling or British English spelling?

[painfull2006]

I laugh at how all these Brits make fun of our English, saying that we spell them wrong, and yet we don't do anything to them.

Pricks.

Im sorry... did you just insult a whole nation? because that sounded an awful lot like racism there...

I'm seriously hoping you were aiming for irony, there.

Maybe not as far as racism then, but who knows, that term is tossed about a bit too freely these days, you could say British where a race though

However, he just insulted 58 million +

 

[NeutralDrow]

I laugh at how all these Brits make fun of our English, saying that we spell them wrong, and yet we don't do anything to them.

Pricks.

Im sorry... did you just insult a whole nation? because that sounded an awful lot like racism there...

I'm seriously hoping you were aiming for irony, there.

Maybe not as far as racism then, but who knows, that term is tossed about a bit too freely these days, you could say British where a race though

However, he just insulted 58 million +

...

Have you been reading this thread at all??

 

[Pandalisk]

OI! wheres the "Both" option?

i use both whenever the mood makes me.

 

[lacktheknack]

I don't know any differences besides colo(u)r, so I'll say American...

 

[The Young One]

I don't get why people spell things like 'through' thru, or use the word 'n00b'.
Who the hell decided it was a good idea?
Just, No.

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

I bet everything that most people who voted that dont live in a country that uses brittish spelling just clicked that because they had yatzee (i cant remember how to spell his name) in their mind.
I perfer American, and basterdized english as well ("u" "teh" "liek", etc)
and i hate grammer nazis.

 

[blarggles]

American English. Get rid of all those u's everywhere. Not to mention the letter "z": come on, it's "zee-bra" not "zeh-bra". And cars have "tires" not "tyres".

It is Tyres the British invented them (Pneumatic tyres) so the American spelling is just plain wrong.

 

[The Young One]

American English. Get rid of all those u's everywhere. Not to mention the letter "z": come on, it's "zee-bra" not "zeh-bra". And cars have "tires" not "tyres".

It is Tyres the British invented them (Pneumatic tyres) so the American spelling is just plain wrong.

I thought so, but I wasn't sure.
'Tires' doesn't look right at all.

 

[Ace of Spades]

One less letter to write in color and armor and words like that, so I'll have to go with U.S. English.

 

[painfull2006]

American English. Get rid of all those u's everywhere. Not to mention the letter "z": come on, it's "zee-bra" not "zeh-bra". And cars have "tires" not "tyres".

It is Tyres the British invented them (Pneumatic tyres) so the American spelling is just plain wrong.

I thought so, but I wasn't sure.
'Tires' doesn't look right at all.

I TIRE of hearing that word in the wrong context

I should slash all of your TYRES

 

[El Taco the Rogue]

Im a brit.

 

[EMO_of_LiGHT]

I like to read American english more, but British english is funier to speak/listen to!

 

[roboosh]

British. I like the needlessly awkward way of spelling we use. That way we can feel supirior to those who spell wrongly. I know I do.

 

[AkJay]

I am an American citizen, but always spell things British-like, for example "Airplane = Aeroplane" "Color = Colour" "Favorite = Favourite" and so on.

 

[Tekrae]

I'm kinda biased since I'm British, but I always find BrEnglish to be easier to use for some reason.
Some say it's harder to learn when you've been used to a foreign language, but that's one of the reasons Pinyin Mandarin exists.

 

[painfull2006]

I'm kinda biased since I'm British, but I always find BrEnglish to be easier to use for some reason.
Some say it's harder to learn when you've been used to a foreign language, but that's one of the reasons Pinyin Mandarin exists.

That's just the French's excuse

 

[The Young One]

What's difficult about it?

 

[xanith02100]

American. -1 keystroke ftw.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

British spelling, because I'm british.

And someone please explain this to me:

Ignoring the difference in spelling, why oh why is there a difference in pronunciation for some words? Why must it be spelt aluminum and said that way, instead of aluminium?

I remember me and my friend saying when I was younger that American English was the lazy man's English. Now that I'm older I think maybe that was a bit of a dick-ish thing to say, but at the same time...

 

[iamnotincompliance]

Hehe, i'm not so easily beat.

No your right there was no regulating body, BUT the language was counted as part of the Empire and so therefore had to be consulted, the leader of the British Empire, i.e. the king/the queen, which paperwork, or even verbal contract, which was NOT filed and therefore still "American" English stays a unofficial splinter language.

Boom, headshot.

Oookay... assuming, for a second, I believe that the language is somehow controlled by the Empire when the consensus is no body controls it at all, there's still that little matter of we haven't listened to the Empire in over two centuries. Even if the king or queen did exert power over our mutual language (which they don't), America wouldn't care. As such, even if said regulatory body did exist, us not caring, English would continue to evolve on both sides of the Atlantic until we can't understand each other at all, in much the same way English evolved from German. Oh yes, if you had clicked my link (which I doubt), you would have noticed that. You say American English is an unofficial splinter language from the proper British (in spite of the point I have already made several times). Fine. I contend English as a whole is an unofficial splinter of German, and I highly doubt either one of us filed the correct paperwork to change German into the bastardized mess English is today. First one to fill out the forms with Chancellor Merkel gets control of the language in perpetuity.

Ready?