(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.