common speeling errors

[Whateverist]

Suffered the same fate as their royals.....

See, we americans got out there and mingled with the other languages (while casting off U shaped anchors). That's why ours is so robust.........in comparison.

More robust? Certainly. But wouldn't it also be fair to say more nuanced, aesthetic and popular?

[Jenny A]

It must be much worse to make sense of English spelling if you're British, because the Brits drop so many syllables from the way the word is spelt ( and was originally pronounced) when they pronounce words:

Who would think "Worst-e-sure" would be spelled "Worcestershire"? or "sec ret ry" "secretary."

We Americans do some of this as in "rest rant" spelt "restaurant" but the Brits put us to shame. They drop syllables like it cost money to say them.

[The Grand Nudger]

Absolutely. Thank you for bringing that up where I failed to. I can imagine no reasonable objection to such a claim and would stand by it to the very end. Lemme just wrap this flag around my fist, and, okay, there we are.....all set.

[ShaMan]

Eye knead two no that their's an end to awl this. It's vary hard fore me to here they're may be moor cumming.

[Clueless Morgan]

It's "bated breath" not "baited breath"

OOOOOOOOh, good one. Now, is that an abbrv "abated"? I'll let someone else be the bearer of knowledge.

The verb "to bate" is not commonly used in English anymore, but it means to moderate or restrain. In this idiom it's used as a contraction of "abated", not an abbreviation, meaning "lessened or reduced" so to have bated breath means that you nearly stop breathing.

- if I ate a can of tuna in front of my cat, could I call my breath baited?

"the bastard human with baited breath glared down at me, his prisoner, with gleeful malice"

Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.
~ Cruel Clever Cat by Geoffery Taylor

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Yeah, not sure what happened over there after our ancestors left. They've really let the language go to hell.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/wor...n-spelling

British and American spelling

There are several areas in which British and American spelling are different. The differences often come about because British English has tended to keep the spelling of words it has absorbed from other languages (e.g. French), while American English has adapted the spelling to reflect the way that the words actually sound when they're spoken.

Regarding Aluminum vs. Aluminium, Sir Humphrey Davy, discoverer of the metal, initially named it Alumium, then changed it to Aluminum (the American usage), and finally settled on Aluminium (the common British usage). It's thought that the American usage of the world was informed by how it was spelled in Webster's dictionary when aluminum started to become more widely available. Aluminium is officially the correct spelling, according to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, but that doesn't stop us 'Mericans from pronouncing it however we damn well please.

[The Grand Nudger]

Murican...not "merican"...murican. With a U. I see a schism developing. You're lucky I left the c where a k clearly belongs!

[SteelCurtain]

It must be much worse to make sense of English spelling if you're British, because the Brits drop so many syllables from the way the word is spelt ( and was originally pronounced) when they pronounce words:

Who would think "Worst-e-sure" would be spelled "Worcestershire"? or "sec ret ry" "secretary."

We Americans do some of this as in "rest rant" spelt "restaurant" but the Brits put us to shame. They drop syllables like it cost money to say them.

You must live in the deepest of the south. I pronounce those words "Wuss-ter-sure", "seck-re-tarry", and "rest-ar-aunt."

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "sec-ret-ry!"

[The Grand Nudger]

In the deep south, we don't say "worcestershire sauce", we haul people who say "worcestershire sauce" into the swamp........

There's only one kind of Sauce, sir.....and it is Hot.

[Jenny A]

It must be much worse to make sense of English spelling if you're British, because the Brits drop so many syllables from the way the word is spelt ( and was originally pronounced) when they pronounce words:

Who would think "Worst-e-sure" would be spelled "Worcestershire"? or "sec ret ry" "secretary."

We Americans do some of this as in "rest rant" spelt "restaurant" but the Brits put us to shame. They drop syllables like it cost money to say them.

You must live in the deepest of the south. I pronounce those words "Wuss-ter-sure", "seck-re-tarry", and "rest-ar-aunt."

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "sec-ret-ry!"

I live in the Northwest and grew up in the Rockies. All you need to do to hear sec ret ry is turn on the BBC. I pronounce secretary just like you do. But then, I'm not British.

My husband grew up in Georgia. He adds syllables. Bey ed for bed; hey ed for head; ba ad for bad; and he does say rest ar aunt.

[ignoramus]

I'm still waiting for an american president to say nuclear not "nucular"

PS, I used to tell a friend that there's no "I" in team, to which he'd reply:
Yeah, but there's "U" in cunt!