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We were told when we were young,
that it was your ancestors :ROFLMAO:

who made all words far longer than necessary or efficient, and those words didn't fit into our small newspapers, and wasted money for our printing presses.....

But somehow, as an adult, that explanation no longer makes any sense to me;
Does it, to anyone?
Did it to those people who told us such things?
Or did they conjure that up, and why?

Must we simply now, all accept that all languages evolve, wherever they are utilized?
 

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At what point in time did it begin,
so we'll have some idea, when it occurs , and how long it then will have taken? :unsure::unsure::unsure:o_O
 
And, how will word spellings be decided, or smoothed out? :geek::unsure:

Will we need to negotiate and come to agreements, such as,

If you are willing to switch out colour for color, then we will spell flavor as flavour?????
Or do you prefer we exchange a more commonly used word in exchange, such as favourite
for your admitting that colour should be color?
:giggle::ROFLMAO:
 
Kaila said:
I think I know, what knickers are, but wouldn't my assumption likely be incorrect?
:LOL:

Are they 3/4 length pants, with a shirred cuff just below the knee?
Often worn for some type of sport activity? :unsure:

As for jumpers, they were such a unique and helpful, very comfortable, layered type of a dress
worn on top of warmer turtle neck top, ;)
That was way back
during the years when girls were required to wear dresses to school, regardless of frigid cold and whirling storms.
Can you believe I was reprimanded in kindergarten, for wearing leggings (snowpants)
to school in an extreme winter storm?
Obviously made to feel so badly, that I've remembered the teacher's reaction, all my life?:rolleyes:

(Don't worry; I'm over it, now.:ROFLMAO: )
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During cold weather, we were allowed to wear heavy winter clothing while walking to school, but then had to change once we got there.
 
Kaila said:
And, how will word spellings be decided, or smoothed out? :geek::unsure:

Will we need to negotiate and come to agreements, such as,

If you are willing to switch out colour for color, then we will spell flavor as flavour?????
Or do you prefer we exchange a more commonly used word in exchange, such as favourite
for your admitting that colour should be color?
:giggle::ROFLMAO:
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A lot of English words originated in French, which has the extra letters. So, sorry to say it, but British English is the correct version, Americans have changed it.
 
Kaila said:
And, how will word spellings be decided, or smoothed out? :geek::unsure:

Will we need to negotiate and come to agreements, such as,

If you are willing to switch out colour for color, then we will spell flavor as flavour?????
Or do you prefer we exchange a more commonly used word in exchange, such as favourite
for your admitting that colour should be color?
:giggle::ROFLMAO:
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well of course we would never admit colour should be color because it never would , you do realise we as a country have been talking.. living , fighting shopping, , for centuries before you had civilisation much less learned how to speak English ... ? We have houses and graves in our cemeteries in our Village older than your once British owned America... ...did you know that ?
 
I don't think we need to go there about slavery .. we can start a real war here about who were the worst slave traders... ..:oops:. and as for the Indigenous people owning America, they certainly did... and they kept their language, however the vast majority who emigrated to the Americas..took the English language with them, and they changed it... the facts are ''not as I see them''..the facts cannot be disputed that Britain as I said..was a civilised country long before America was recognised as a country...

That said if I can't state facts on this thread without someone trying to cause an argument I won't be posting here any more..
 
Would it be possible for us to continue asking questions of each other... sometimes rather silly and dumb ones... and not delve into subjects that can involve politics, etc.??
 
Do you want to ask questions about four-wheel drive trucks and big ol' construction equipment or ask questions about doilies and crocheting?
 
I know nothing about vehicles and anyway, we might start arguing about the effect of 4x4 s on the environment, so we'll steer (!) clear of that subject.
Do you think the continent of Atlantis actually existed?
 
Rosemarie said:
A lot of English words originated in French, which has the extra letters. So, sorry to say it, but British English is the correct version, Americans have changed it.
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Why have people laughed, do they find it so difficult to face up to the truth? It's looking as though your attitude has lost both me and Hollydolly.
This just illustrates how poorly educated Americans are, otherwise you would already know what we have stated. No wonder so many celebs who go to Hollywood, have their children educated in England.
 
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For the record I didn't disagree about why Americans speak English, nor that American spellings vary from the original version. I put up a laughter emoji because whether a word is spelled color or colour is fine with me. I don't disagree that the English version is historically correct. That said, if my grandchildren spell it colour, their teachers will consider it a misspelling and reduce their grade accordingly.

I took umbrage at what I perceived to be denigrating statements about the US and it fell apart from there.

The odd thing is, I'm not particularly patriotic. It's not difficult for me to see the many ugly sides of America. I know my relatively young country is a melange of many cultures, and the English language is among the numerous indelible imprints England made in North America.

Perhaps it's the kind of thing where siblings don't mind picking on each other but when someone outside the family kicks dirt on their shoes the family will band together and fight that person to the death.

I apologize for my comments and withdrew them because I realize they were an overreaction. I'm hoping that our cyber friendship are large enough to contain this kerfuffle rather than to define it.
 
If you made "a mountain out of a molehill" and the Jolly Green Giant baked the cookies, could the Giant's giant cookies be larger than the mole's molehill mountain?
 

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