Does that effect have an affect on all of this? 
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So how many of you “unthawed” today?
Did it feel good or was it a bit cold?
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Oh man, I still have to really think about this one whenever i’m typing something. Sometimes I just change the sentence and avoid the word all together lol.
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Then let’s discuss than and then rather than your and you’re?
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I’m from Texas and I feel like I hear this one a lot.
Also,
Husband:
Honey, bring me a Coke would ya?
Wife:
What kind?
Husband:
Dr. Pepper
<facepalm>
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No biggee. Same as Xerox being interchangeable with photocopy. “Get me a Xerox of those invoices.” Did we switch gears from the written word to dialect?
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Just a quick semi relevant example. We can get this back on track.
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I think that’s just a regional thing. I’m from Michigan and we call it a “pop”. Other areas say “soda” I think.
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I was born in New Jersey and do not drink coffee. I drink kawfee. Sometimes I tawk to people when I drink my kawfee.
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I don’t understand it when Americans selectively add the “u” in certain words; favourite, colour, flavour - makes no sense mateys!
I thought you drank cawps of cawfee.
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That’s a British thing, not American. They love throwing an extra ‘u’ into words.
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OK, then…
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Not an American thing. We dropped the “u”s in 1776.
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The version of firefox supplied with Suse linux seems to think those are the correct version, even though as noted it’s a brit thing.
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Interesting… around the time of independence.
We use ‘U’ in our words here in 'Straya, too.
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Yes it’s a British thing but American’s do it - doesn’t make sense - do a search of “favourite” on the forum and I’m sure you’ll find something lol
I think with some specific words (a small percentage of the words British and Aussie people spell differently than I do) remembering how we spell them in the U.S.A. is difficult since we see the other spellings so much (and the other spellings are allowed in auto-correct dictionaries too)
Those are just the Americans that watch too much British TV. Best to ignore them.
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In New Jersey everyone just said cups. I think in Boston they say cawps.
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