This is not America!

[Pigmy Pony]

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Last time I looked REL was based in Wales, so why do they have to spell 'Theatre' wrong? Are the folk stateside so easily confused? Why are we having to pander to their inability to spell things correctly? I bet none of their products use words like theatre and analogue spelled as they should be. And don't get me started on aluminum :(

[CageyH]

Is it a suprize to you? You need to realize the impact of globalization. America is the center of the universe.

[Pigmy Pony]

Bite me :D

[Ali Tait]

:lol:

[Barry]

Either "-ise" or "-ize" is acceptable. "-ise" tends to be more common in the UK, whereas "-ize" (known as Oxford spelling) tends to be used in academic publications.

The 'anglicisation' of: colour/color; analogue/analog; centre/center, and theatre/theater I find more troubling, despite being more logical.

[Pigmy Pony]

Either "-ise" or "-ize" is acceptable. "-ise" tends to be more common in the UK, whereas "-ize" (known as Oxford spelling) tends to be used in academic publications.

The 'anglicisation' of: colour/color; analogue/analog; centre/center, and theatre/theater I find more troubling, despite being more logical.

Got to the bottom of the aluminium/aluminum thing though. English chemist Humphrey Davy, when identifying the existence of the element, initially named it alumium, but then changed it to aluminum. But many thought the spelling would sound more like classical Latin and more in line with other elements if it was spelled 'aluminium'. But this was the 1800s, and telephones had not yet been invented, so Americans only got the memo 20 years later. That last bit might not be true.

[Pieoftheday]

Not spelling but enunciation, why do some say axe instead of ask:scratch:

[Lawrence001]

Not spelling but enunciation, why do some say axe instead of ask:scratch:Nobody I know does, who do you hang around with? [emoji23]

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[Pigmy Pony]

I've heard folk of a Caribbean origin pronounce it like that.

[CageyH]

This morning I had a beer can sandwich. ;)

[CageyH]

Either "-ise" or "-ize" is acceptable. "-ise" tends to be more common in the UK, whereas "-ize" (known as Oxford spelling) tends to be used in academic publications.

The 'anglicisation' of: colour/color; analogue/analog; centre/center, and theatre/theater I find more troubling, despite being more logical.

When I was edumacated, -ise was the way to spell it.

Don’t forget America is a dangerous place, as they drive on the pavement.

[Pigmy Pony]

When I was edumacated, -ise was the way to spell it.

Don’t forget America is a dangerous place, as they drive on the pavement.

And when they crash they always catch fire. I've seen it happen countless times on telly.

[Pigmy Pony]

This morning I had a beer can sandwich. ;)

Yehman, but you dittent axe if I wannid one :(

[CageyH]

Yehman, but you dittent axe if I wannid one :(

I did. But I had a feelin I was talking to the hand as the face wuzzunt interested.

[Sherwood]

Not spelling but enunciation, why do some say axe instead of ask:scratch:

This dates back to Anglo-Saxon times and Old English. It derives from the word acsian which means to ask or ask for.

[Barry]

True - in fact a lot of the pronunciation of English words in the US has remained largely unchanged since the Mayflower landed.

The grammar and sentence construction is often influenced by German.

[Pieoftheday]

Always worth asking. I used to hear it on those terrible American shows,Jerry somebody? Etc and thought it odd

[Pigmy Pony]

Always worth asking. I used to hear it on those terrible American shows,Jerry somebody? Etc and thought it odd

But I doubt the origin Geoff cites has anything to do with it, those clowns say it because their mates do and they think it sounds cool. I just think they sound retarded. Yes I know I'm not supposed to use that word any more, but if they can say axe...

[Pieoftheday]

[QUOTE=Pigmy Pony;1380597]But I doubt the origin Geoff cites has anything to do with it, those clowns say it because their mates do and they think it sounds cool. I just think they sound retarded. Yes I know I'm not supposed to use that word any more, but if they can say :)

[Macca]

And when they crash they always catch fire. I've seen it happen countless times on telly.

Cars that go over cliffs, fall a hundred feet then blow up.

The reason they blow up is so they don't have to show the hero go all the way to the bottom of the cliff to assure us the bad guy is dead.

Even if he somehow survived the fall, the car has inexplicably, but handily, blown to pieces. So certainly dead. We can end the show now.

(After a quick epilogue where everyone is standing about having a chuckle, even though a number of innocent people - including some close friends of theirs - have died during the episode).

[Macca]

True - in fact a lot of the pronunciation of English words in the US has remained largely unchanged since the Mayflower landed.

The grammar and sentence construction is often influenced by German.

Indeed, some of the spellings are Elizabethan English, so more English than our versions, technically.

Although 'color' is just plain bone-idleness.

[willbewill]

I thought REL were a Californian company which also has a base for the UK and EU in Wales? If they were Welsh then it would be "Theatr".

[Pigmy Pony]

Their registered office and trading address is in Wales, though I read that they were recently bought out by their US distributor Sumiko.

Their Serie T/X range really ought to be Serie T/Ecs though, the letter 'X' doesn't exist in the Welsh language.

[Pigmy Pony]

Cars that go over cliffs, fall a hundred feet then blow up.

The reason they blow up is so they don't have to show the hero go all the way to the bottom of the cliff to assure us the bad guy is dead.

Even if he somehow survived the fall, the car has inexplicably, but handily, blown to pieces. So certainly dead. We can end the show now.

(After a quick epilogue where everyone is standing about having a chuckle, even though a number of innocent people - including some close friends of theirs - have died during the episode).

The Americans don't have a shortage of cars that need to go off a cliff though, just as well as they were all inevitably write offs. You look at any of the British films from the 60s/70s, the car was always the same white Jag. Clearly our cars were made of sterner stuff and repairable.

Ooh look, there it goes again:

https://youtu.be/V4S7WDhMlDI?t=9

[Barry]

Their registered office and trading address is in Wales, though I read that they were recently bought out by their US distributor Sumiko.

Their Serie T/X range really ought to be Serie T/Ecs though, the letter 'X' doesn't exist in the Welsh language.

Welsh is not the only European language that does not have "x" in its alphabet.

[Macca]

I thought REL were a Californian company which also has a base for the UK and EU in Wales? If they were Welsh then it would be "Theatr".

It's an economical language, your Welsh. Cuts down on all those surplus vowels. I remember watching the 'snwcer' on S4C.

[Pigmy Pony]

It's an economical language, your Welsh. Cuts down on all those surplus vowels. I remember watching the 'snwcer' on S4C.

The snwcer? What was the qwstn?

[CageyH]

As someone once sung, "Sha la la la la."

[Pigmy Pony]

As someone once sung, "Sha la la la la."

Which as everyone knows, is French for "Your headphones are on back to front" (Sorry Mike, couldn't resist) :)

[Floyddroid]

Opel fruits, Marathon, the list is endless.

[Techno Commander]

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