@sundogplanets I love how #Canadian spelling exists in an inconsistent world with one foot in English English and the other in American.
The sign outside #Costco that reads "Tire Centre" is my favourite example.
@sundogplanets you can thank french for that :) manœuvre and manœuvrable if you want to be fancy. It make some sense if you split œuvre (work? as a noun), from it, but yeah, must be confusing for an engilsh speaker.
I'm writing up answers to questions from a reporter about satellite pollution, and my answers are getting spicier and spicier as I go...I think I'll have to go for a walk and come back to this to make sure I'm not raging too much at whoever the audience is for this piece...
@sundogplanets Glad I'm not the only one who experiences this. I usually write a long hot article, sleep on it, edit it to be shorter and cooler, go for a walk, edit it to be shorter and cooler, then post.
I like to tease the Brits, that despite their love/hate relationship with the French, they've retained what I would call "French spelling", and Americans beat them to better-spelled words.
E.g.: COLOUR, the U is atavistic and needless.
So you're actually complaining about that, "Frenchisms" left in British spelling.
What do you want from a people who call it
Aluminium
rather than
Aluminum
{laughs}
Like any of it matters, at the end of the day. Except "manoeuvre", kill it the moment you see it.
@sundogplanets There are a few words where I just type something mostly correct and then use the spell checker...
Yes, I could pull out the dictionary, or the thesaurus (is there another word for that? 😉), or the encyclopedia, and look up the spelling. But I'll admit, if spell checking is available, that's often more convenient. 🙂
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