We call it a footpath here.
I hateit when a fellow Australian uses the word 'ass' instead of 'arse'. As far as I am concerned an ass is a type of donkey.
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It's MUM not mom, it's COLOUR not Color
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We call it a footpath here.
I hateit when a fellow Australian uses the word 'ass' instead of 'arse'. As far as I am concerned an ass is a type of donkey.
It's a tap, not a faucet
It's a biscuit, not a cookie.
It's a biscuit, not a cookie.
It's lift, not elevator.
Actually, it niether of those.
It;s TURBO lift.
Primitive 21st century humans........
^ Good one
as for the rest who the hell cares!
Yet consider, if we expand to pronounciation as well as spelling, the case of "Rowt" vs "Root".
British "route" is "root". So, apparently we Brits don't actually like pronouncing our "u" as "u" but instead pretend it's another "o".
A theory presents itself! The "u" is basically like one of the "naughty bits" of the alphabet; we like to know it's there, and damn it we'll check to make sure, but we don't actually openly acknowledge it. We Brits get scandalized and spit out our drinks when the Americans say they haven't got one, but actually drawing attention to the fact that you've got one is just not on, old chap. Naturally, in accordance with the whole "prudish America" idea, they often remove it from the word entirely.
My god, I've solved it! Decades of painful linguistic separation resolved!
British "route" is "root". So, apparently we Brits don't actually like pronouncing our "u" as "u" but instead pretend it's another "o".
A theory presents itself! The "u" is basically like one of the "naughty bits" of the alphabet; we like to know it's there, and damn it we'll check to make sure, but we don't actually openly acknowledge it. We Brits get scandalized and spit out our drinks when the Americans say they haven't got one, but actually drawing attention to the fact that you've got one is just not on, old chap. Naturally, in accordance with the whole "prudish America" idea, they often remove it from the word entirely.
My god, I've solved it! Decades of painful linguistic separation resolved!
Yeah, I'm fine with people arguing it's Colour because it was standardized that way before it was standardized the American way. However, Aluminum (like Platinum) was written that way first.
My grandmother calls it a pavement. She's born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Not all Americans say sidewalk (although sidewalk is a perfectly logical phrase to use).
^^ Good show old boy. Although one isn't supposed to tell the colonials our little secret, what?!
Yet consider, if we expand to pronounciation as well as spelling, the case of "Rowt" vs "Root".
British "route" is "root". So, apparently we Brits don't actually like pronouncing our "u" as "u" but instead pretend it's another "o".
This is not so. The pronunciation can be dependent upon usage, to wit: "What rout is that root?"
That’s Spam ®!
I mean, really — “bonnet”?
It sounds so . . . so . . . so GAY!
(Not that there’s anything wrong with gay cars!)
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It's knickers, not panties. 
it's crisps not chips.
it's chips not fries.
it's a bowler not a derby.
it's football not soccer.
it's rounders not baseball. :P
it's chips not fries.
it's a bowler not a derby.
it's football not soccer.
it's rounders not baseball. :P
Obviously, y'all should be speaking Latin.
It's "spam" not "post!"
I noticed that when in Ireland over Christmas, we went and saw some of my other half's family and the younger members from Dublin had a bit of an American twang to their accent and called their mum, mom!
So ... mum's the word?
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