(December 14, 2022 at 6:20 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:14 pm)emjay Wrote: Me too, and I'm starting to... especially using z's instead of s's... and sometimes just as a concession really, like dropping the ue at the end of dialogue or analogue.

I’ve always thought canceled was spelled with two “L’s.”

Maybe we need therapy.

Yeah, I never really noticed the difference until now. They certainly know how to shorten words, which can be a good thing, and there are some American words where I think their version makes a lot more sense than ours, like trunk for instance (ie vs boot)... as in the trunks they used to put on the back of stage coaches... makes much more sense carrying that analogy over to cars than using the word boot... but then I don't know where that comes from.

I put the date on things like bank deposit slips like this: 14 Dec 2022.

A man I worked for a while back told me to stop writing the date the 'European' way. I told him it was how I was taught in the Army and just stuck with it. He said he wanted it the American way.

Not sure what Army he thought I was in. smh

As for the words above - it's jewel-ry not jewl-e-ry.

(December 14, 2022 at 6:31 pm)emjay Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:20 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I’ve always thought canceled was spelled with two “L’s.”

Maybe we need therapy.

Yeah, I never really noticed the difference until now. They certainly know how to shorten words, which can be a good thing, and there are some American words where I think their version makes a lot more sense than ours, like trunk for instance (ie vs boot)... as in the trunks they used to put on the back of stage coaches... makes much more sense carrying that analogy over to cars than using the word boot... but then I don't know where that comes from.

Do you use Fahrenheit or Celsius?   I think the US is one of the few countries who refuses to use Celsius.

(December 14, 2022 at 6:36 pm)*Deidre* Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:31 pm)emjay Wrote: Yeah, I never really noticed the difference until now. They certainly know how to shorten words, which can be a good thing, and there are some American words where I think their version makes a lot more sense than ours, like trunk for instance (ie vs boot)... as in the trunks they used to put on the back of stage coaches... makes much more sense carrying that analogy over to cars than using the word boot... but then I don't know where that comes from.

Do you use Fahrenheit or Celsius?   I think the US is one of the few countries who refuses to use Celsius.

I've never used Fahrenheit in my life... I don't have the foggiest what anything is in that.

(December 14, 2022 at 6:40 pm)emjay Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:36 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Do you use Fahrenheit or Celsius?   I think the US is one of the few countries who refuses to use Celsius.

I've never used Fahrenheit in my life... I don't have the foggiest what anything is in that.

LOL - 0 is damn cold.  32 is freezing and if your temperature is over 98.6, you might be sick.

Everything else is relative to those.

(December 14, 2022 at 6:44 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:40 pm)emjay Wrote: I've never used Fahrenheit in my life... I don't have the foggiest what anything is in that.

LOL - 0 is damn cold.  32 is freezing and if your temperature is over 98.6, you might be sick.

Everything else is relative to those.

Right, I'll try and bear that in mind for the future... but never needed to use it yet

(December 14, 2022 at 6:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I put the date on things like bank deposit slips like this: 14 Dec 2022.

A man I worked for a while back told me to stop writing the date the 'European' way.  I told him it was how I was taught in the Army and just stuck with it.  He said he wanted it the American way.

Not sure what Army he thought I was in.  smh

As for the words above - it's jewel-ry not jewl-e-ry.

Did you start doing it the "American" way after that?

I make my fours the way you typed it in your post. My first job out of uni I was writing reports longhand, and the secretaries would type them up on a mid-frame computer. It wasn't long after that that PCs were coming available. Anyway, my supervisor proof read my report and wanted me to change to an open top four, because "nobody uses the one with the closed top". I whipped open one of my textbooks and showed him page 4.

(December 14, 2022 at 6:40 pm)emjay Wrote:

(December 14, 2022 at 6:36 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: Do you use Fahrenheit or Celsius?   I think the US is one of the few countries who refuses to use Celsius.

I've never used Fahrenheit in my life... I don't have the foggiest what anything is in that.

lol!! I like Fahrenheit because it is a better descriptor of how hot the day is. Celsius never describes hot. Cold, yes.

I work with someone who lives in London, and she always says ''straight away,'' whereas Americans typically say ''right away.'' Either thing actually doesn't make sense when you process it...how did these options become the descriptors for ''quickly?'' 

Nonetheless, I've switched, and now say ''straight away.'' 

I believe that people who write the numeral 7 with a slash across the middle are filthy commie bastards intent on destroying democracy throughout the world.

Boru

Idea for a Marvel movie that's probably more interesting than a lot of the stuff the MCU has released in Phase 4: a movie about Hellcow.

Yes, there is a Hellcow in the Marvel Universe, and it's apparently canon to the MCU if a reference in Agents of SHIELD is any indication: