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Old 06-21-2005, 06:09 PM   #104
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Originally Posted by mormegil
I would rather be in favor of sending British spelling. I mean, seriously it's pronounced with a z sound so why not spell it realize instead of realise, and many others of the sort.
That should be "favour".

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Originally Posted by mormegil
(although I would love it if I could say the word theater as you Brits do)
Surely you mean "theatre". You see, it's much easier to pronounce it correctly when you spell it correctly.

I would not presume to send either American spelling or American pronunciation to Mordor. But when they creep across the Atlantic and corrupt the very mother-tongue from which they were derived, then it's straight off to Minas Morgul with them as far as I'm concerned (or it would be if I wasn't already here myself)

I've lost count of the number of times that I have screamed at news presenters that it's controversy not controversy.
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