Poll: English or American spelling?

[DuplicateValue]

Depends on the word, usually I go with the American spelling because the English spelling for a lot of things just looks stupid.

But surely the English makes more sense?

I mean, the American spelling of "favour" is "favor". To me that looks like it should be pronounced 'FAH-VOHR' or something. The 'u' is what changes the sound of the last syllable.

Also the word "favor" (and "color" for that matter) looks very harsh and crude in my opinion. =]

I would agree with you only if the word was pronounced as, "Fav-Our" (Our pronounced the same as Hour)

By contrast, you could say that the British spelling looks pretentious. I think what it comes down to is that if you wanted to find the best spelling, it proberally would have been, "faver"

Or if I was to be picky, "Faever".

And now it looks cooler too.

 

[Rawker]

I think it's called english, because I don't think you can exactly pick "Americanese" as an option.

 

[Darth Pope]

American because I am one. The British drive on the wrong side of the road anyway...

 

[Xanadu84]

Depends on the word, usually I go with the American spelling because the English spelling for a lot of things just looks stupid.

But surely the English makes more sense?

I mean, the American spelling of "favour" is "favor". To me that looks like it should be pronounced 'FAH-VOHR' or something. The 'u' is what changes the sound of the last syllable.

Also the word "favor" (and "color" for that matter) looks very harsh and crude in my opinion. =]

I would agree with you only if the word was pronounced as, "Fav-Our" (Our pronounced the same as Hour)

By contrast, you could say that the British spelling looks pretentious. I think what it comes down to is that if you wanted to find the best spelling, it proberally would have been, "faver"

Or if I was to be picky, "Faever".

And now it looks cooler too.

I think that's actually a bit less intuitive, but it is the coolest looking option so far.

We should do this with more words. hmm...Culoar? Humare? Im sure there are ideas better then these

 

[darthzew]

Well, my Word is American, so American is my answer. But I find British writing to be a bit more... authentic.

 

[Crowser]

I am an equal opportunity spell checker... also the armor I am wearing is the colour red.

 

[SultanP]

Well, being from neither Britain nor USA, I get to choose whichever I want, and I mostly go with British. Mostly because I prefer that way of spelling words, but also because I die a little inside every time someone writes thru. It reminds me too much of people writing "u" instead of "you", which should be a criminal offence if I had anything to say about it.

 

[DannyBarnes]

English obviously, Americans are just lazy and shorten things like colour to color and favour to favor its silly..

my spell check has gone mad with the American spellings haha
plus its called ENGLISH, why would the Americans take a language and then change some words??
typical American arrogance really....

 

[murphy7801]

: [small] I wish I had a British accent [/small]

what kind of british accent? southern? northern? brummy? scouse (spelling please)? jordy (spellin again)? there are tons of brithish accents

Nah he wants a heavy Bristol accent!

 

[Xanadu84]

Well, being from neither Britain nor USA, I get to choose whichever I want, and I mostly go with British. Mostly because I prefer that way of spelling words, but also because I die a little inside every time someone writes thru. It reminds me too much of people writing "u" instead of "you", which should be a criminal offence if I had anything to say about it.

In America, "Thru" is really just a bastardized spelling, as in, "Drive Thru" like Nestles, "Qwik". It has no place in proper American English either.

 

[somekindarobot]

American, because as a somewhat proud American citizen, I like it that way. And in response to those who say British English is right because they invented it, well that may be true, but it's OURS now! And if you want to see your precious Letter Us alive and well, your government WILL send one trillion pounds to Washington. MUHAHAHAHA(we'll kill them anyway)AHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[DuplicateValue]

Depends on the word, usually I go with the American spelling because the English spelling for a lot of things just looks stupid.

But surely the English makes more sense?

I mean, the American spelling of "favour" is "favor". To me that looks like it should be pronounced 'FAH-VOHR' or something. The 'u' is what changes the sound of the last syllable.

Also the word "favor" (and "color" for that matter) looks very harsh and crude in my opinion. =]

I would agree with you only if the word was pronounced as, "Fav-Our" (Our pronounced the same as Hour)

By contrast, you could say that the British spelling looks pretentious. I think what it comes down to is that if you wanted to find the best spelling, it proberally would have been, "faver"

Or if I was to be picky, "Faever".

And now it looks cooler too.

I think that's actually a bit less intuitive, but it is the coolest looking option so far.

We should do this with more words. hmm...Culoar? Humare? Im sure there are ideas better then these

That settles it. We're re-writing the English language.

Right then,

"Hyoomer" and, eh....um....damn it's getting too late for heavy thinking. xD

 

[Macgyvercas]

: [small] I wish I had a British accent [/small]

what kind of british accent? southern? northern? brummy? scouse (spelling please)? jordy (spellin again)? there are tons of brithish accents

I believe the accent he's looking for is, "The one that helps me pick up chicks"

There is that, but I was thinking a Northern accent like Christopher Eccelston in Doctor Who

 

[DannyBarnes]

: [small] I wish I had a British accent [/small]

what kind of british accent? southern? northern? brummy? scouse (spelling please)? jordy (spellin again)? there are tons of brithish accents

Nah he wants a heavy Bristol accent!

nooo definitely wants a scouse accent, its better than anyone else's!!!

 

[murphy7801]

Oh I write dyslexic english so could be anything really.

 

[AkJay]

I'm American, but since i was a kid i used "English" spelling, such as "Colour / Favourite / Aeroplane"

 

[blarggles]

Neither. I have enough faith I spelled things correctly. I make mistakes, but it looks nice enough that errors are not usually noticed.
And I hate the english style because advocates of it seem to have a prickness about them.
Being proud and all is fine, but to act like you are better for adding a pointless u makes you come off as one of our Republican 'patriots' who freak cause Obama did not wear a flag pin.

Smart.

No sorry, I'm mixing up smart and "That really wasn't smart".

"I hate a language because those people hate the way I do it" is quite possibly THE WORST excuse ever. Atleast British people have the right to say that they had it first. Honestly, there is no way the UK can't be in the right.

I think you have just touched on another topic there.

Something I have noticed with some of my American friends. They think it is perfectly acceptable to be patriotic to there country. However, not ok for me to be Patriotic about the UK around them. Otherwise, I am trying to show I am superior. Or some other clap trap they come out with. Basically boils down to one rule for them, another for everyone else when it comes to showing support of your country. Maybe it is just the American's I have met but this has happened a fair few times now.

 

[VpDeadboltX]

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...I choose Arab D:

 

[LCP]

where is spanglish? i demand spanglish option!

 

[Madshaw]

Even though I am American I say British. It is thier language after all.

I like you