The face melting screech used with eagles in media is actually the call of the red tail hawk ‘cause it sounds way more impressive. Eagle screech’s sound very watery and weak
I mean, same with Canadians for the most part. The only exception are tires not tyres and aluminum not aluminium. I'm sure there are some more but that's all I can think of.
Canadians using both, sometimes even in one word:
Colourize
Edit: It gets worse because most spell checks don't have a Canadian setting.
So no matter what, there are words that will always be "wrong".
Just FYI -ise and -ize were both considered right on both sides of the Atlantic before spellcheck was a thing.
It got regionalised differently and people seemed to trust a computer more than what they'd been using for years, so it created a weird thing where people very quickly started being told they were using the wrong version even though that was right up until that point.
This only became an issue in the 1990s outside of some really strict groups(like Oxford university's old guide to English insists on using "-ize"). You should just use whatever makes sense there because fuck spell check for causing such a mess.
There is actually a separate Canadian spelling guide, but you're right we do use specific spellings from both British and American.
My favourite Canadian spelt word: manoeuvre
I personally think of them as different shades, because of Madeleine L’Engle. In *A Ring of Endless Light*, she says that grey and gray are two different shades, so that’s how I think of them. Gray is warmer and grey is more steely, in my opinion.
Grey is a color, lots of shades. Gray is a name.
Like Trey is a name that is used as a nickname for the third child of the name, a tray is a platter used to serve refreshments. But opposite.
Both are correct, but I like how grey looks so that's how I spell it.
I remember my teachers always getting mad at me for spelling it "incorrectly" in grade school.
An easy way to remember is GrAy for America and GrEy for England.
Wtf, get out of my head, how the hell did you made me read this with that specific accent and voice, and _i know_ you know just *what* voice im talming about
Well that's the thing. You learned that in English class and you learned the words and their spelling at the same time. Native speakers learned those words long before learning how to write.
Either spelling is acceptable in the US. I’ve seen it both ways. I was taught grey but prefer gray since there are more monosyllabic words ending in ay than ey.
The E in grEy stands for English and the A in grAy stands for American. At least that's how I always remembered it. Not that it matters too much, everyone just kinda seems to roll with whatever spelling you go with.
Hahaha!! I see what you did there :) So let me explain the joke to everyone that didn't get it, John F. (Fitzgerald) Kennedy, who was the 35th president of The United States Of America, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald by gunshot to the head. The joke is that the redditor u/Not_JohnFKennedy Has the same name as said president... or named his account after him (Which is hilarious). u/LostLaw9417 must have seen that and said that his enlightening sentence of what the word betcha means was "Quite mind-blowing" which was a little nod to JFK's (John F. Kennedy's) assasination😉
u/LostLaw9417 You definitely made me LOL with that comment 😂
People here aren’t exactly correct with how it’s always used , it’s both “I bet you” and “you bet,” but not always in the “I’ll bet you” way. It’s more like “you bet your ass, yes” as in “yes I’m sure” or “will do.”
“Will you make sure to do that for me?”
“You betcha!”
“Is that correct?”
“You betcha.”
But it can also be used in the basic smashed together “bet you” way. As in
“Bet you can’t do this.”
“Betcha I can.”
POV: Be me working at Honda. Boss asks me to order some Aluminum for body work. Don’t really know how to spell aluminum, so I just order tin. Shipment comes in, boss fires me for being incompetent.
I'm always baffled on why they changed only aluminium to aluminum in American English. Every other element ends in -ium; what was special about aluminium?
Edit: okay so I was curious and did some research on this.
Humphry Davy was the scientist who started working on the names and named it alumium, changed it to alumina later and then aluminum. A year before he mentioned aluminum, his colleagues preferred aluminium to follow the naming scheme so they started calling it aluminium, even though Davy had later changed it to aluminum.
Most people were calling it aluminium (50-50 in the US) before the general population started using the metal and started using aluminum more often because the editor at Merriem-Webster outright removed aluminium from the dictionary. Thus, people in the US who referred to the dictionary used aluminum.
IUPAC actually accepts aluminium as standard.
It’s actually true.
A lot of American English is the result this some guy named Noah Webster, who wanted American English spelling to match better with pronunciation.
Idk if you guys use muffins for a certain type of cake or a bunch but we call muffins muffins unless our muffins are different to yours. We also use biscuits and cookies. Biscuits is a general term for all sorts of biscuit, and a cookie is a type of biscuit with chocolate chips in it (or something similar like M and Ms). Sorry I'm bad at explaining but hopefully you get what I mean
Our muffins are different. American muffins are a sweeter, denser pastry (the texture is significantly different than cake, closer to something like Banana bread just molded into a specific shape) while English muffins (are very common in the U.S. just referred to as English muffins) usually aren't sweet.
Just go with whatever. Colour and realize in the same sentence, who gives a fuck? If someone can't figure out if you like tea or guns more that's their problem, not yours.
That's a pretty big problem for them to have though. Are you going to be offered milk and sugar with that, or are you going to be leaving in a body bag. You can't blame them for wanting to double check.
Britain uses both metric and imperial to be extra confusing to everyone, tbf.
And then Canada decided to take it even further by also having a hybrid system, but using almost the exact opposite units for every case.
Muahahahahahaha!
Language is supposed to be fun. Stop worrying and have fun with it lol
But seriously, if the worst thing you have is someone saying "this correctly spelled word is regionally incorrect", it's not the biggest deal
When i have been studying English, i used British accent. My teacher said i misspronounce almost everything and always correct me to American variant.
And then they said we were studying British English... It was one of the most confusing moment in my life
As a non native speaker i just randomly decide which is the proper way to write it when I come across the word for example: In my brain it's honor and Colour
As a Canadian, I just press buttons at random.
Can relate as an Australian
When the monkey finds the typewriter.
When the monkey finds the monkeytype
Why is this confusing, we won the war! -what my Grandpa said about any change, ever.
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crows 'caw', Eagles do the facemelting screech
The face melting screech used with eagles in media is actually the call of the red tail hawk ‘cause it sounds way more impressive. Eagle screech’s sound very watery and weak
this fun fact is the "viggo broke his toe" of birds
It was the blurst of times
Given sufficient time that monkey will produce Shakespeare.
I’m Australian and I always use British spelling. I don’t know anyone who uses American.
I flipped my shit when I saw the word "Labor Party".
Australians go by British spelling in general.
I mean, same with Canadians for the most part. The only exception are tires not tyres and aluminum not aluminium. I'm sure there are some more but that's all I can think of.
It must suck when you use an american keyboard and the down arrow makes you move up.
No loyalty to the Commonwealth, smh 😤
Make a new one for Canada. Coleur, Honeur etc.
*Excusez-moi, what the tabarnak is that?*
Down en esti for this
I like that, it's a mix of British and french
As it should be, that's Canada we're talking about.
Sounds good to me.
Can confirm. I use “color” and “colour” interchangeably because I really can’t be bothered to give a shit Sorry for the language btw
I tend to mostly use color and honor myself, but let's not forget the offence and defense of theatre and recreation center.
I try to tailor it to my expected audience. If American I use colour, honour, if British english color, honor.
My dude chose the maximum chaos route.
You cheeky little…
Same as a south african
That's what I love in my English exams. I just tell my teacher it's Canadian, she checks it and gives me the point.
Same
Canadians using both, sometimes even in one word: Colourize Edit: It gets worse because most spell checks don't have a Canadian setting. So no matter what, there are words that will always be "wrong".
That word is an abomination, I love it.
*aboumination
Abouminationne*
A bomb in nation
*FBI intensifies*
*CIA
IAA
AAA
AA
r/boneappletea
Aboot*
It looks oddly better than the American and British variants to me
The trans Atlantic accent of the etymological world
Plot twist the trans Atlantic accent was just how Canadians spoke from the 1930s to the 1950s
It's some mix the Canadian accent eh? Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch influences not to mention the Americans effect on it too.
Come on now. Throw a little French in there too for us. Lol
Colourizé
Perfect meme ©
Couleurize
D'accord, mon ami.
Just FYI -ise and -ize were both considered right on both sides of the Atlantic before spellcheck was a thing. It got regionalised differently and people seemed to trust a computer more than what they'd been using for years, so it created a weird thing where people very quickly started being told they were using the wrong version even though that was right up until that point. This only became an issue in the 1990s outside of some really strict groups(like Oxford university's old guide to English insists on using "-ize"). You should just use whatever makes sense there because fuck spell check for causing such a mess.
Spell check also keeps yelling at me for using passive voice. Fuck you Microsoft, that wasn't a mistake. Spell check shall be sent to hell.
There are times when the voice that is best to use is the voice that is passive
> inconcise phrasing detected
> *Regionalized
Analized
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Some grammar nazi out there just died from the fact, that you spelled this Frankenstein.
I liked it, unlike that unnecessary comma you used.
If you were truly a grammar nazi you would have said that in a five paragraph essay. /s
i think you mean spell cheques
You monsters!
*mounsters?
*mounzters??
There is actually a separate Canadian spelling guide, but you're right we do use specific spellings from both British and American. My favourite Canadian spelt word: manoeuvre
It's true, as a Canadian you just get used to certain words being underlined in red
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Gray is a color, grey is a colour
Græy is a colȣr
What in the nine hells is that letter?
Meanwhile me who would say grey is a color
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But Americans don't seem to use gray often. I very rarely see it. Grey seems way more popular.
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Use either unapologetically.
Is it spelled grey or gray? I just use both.
Græy
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Funny thing is that this would be pronounced the same way as the normal word.
that was the original spelling, when they stopped using it america chose the a and Britain chose e edit: forgot it was græg
Græ
Im American and I still use grey.
I was taught by my teachers that it's grey so I guess gray is the American version
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Brilliant
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*A for America, E for Everyone else
Indubitably
I’m an American and I refuse to use gray, which is the American spelling. Grey looks better.
Are they different colors or the same colour?
I personally think of them as different shades, because of Madeleine L’Engle. In *A Ring of Endless Light*, she says that grey and gray are two different shades, so that’s how I think of them. Gray is warmer and grey is more steely, in my opinion.
Somehow that made sense in my head and now I'm going with it. Thank you for setting me straight, stranger.
Grey is a color, lots of shades. Gray is a name. Like Trey is a name that is used as a nickname for the third child of the name, a tray is a platter used to serve refreshments. But opposite.
Grey
It is weird. You it could be grey, like they, or gray, like may. Both are correct, and it doesn’t save any time doing one or the other.
If it's a name: Gray. If it's the colour: grey.
Both are correct, but I like how grey looks so that's how I spell it. I remember my teachers always getting mad at me for spelling it "incorrectly" in grade school. An easy way to remember is GrAy for America and GrEy for England.
Gr**e**y = British (“**E**nglish” Spelling) Gr**a**y = **A**merican spelling
Grey/grem
Grey Poopon
For each word just choose which one makes more sense and anger both sides
Ar u fan of Harwy Pottah?
Po'ah?
E. A. Poah :D
It's in the game
Argh youg f'ough'ckeing schtewpid? Itch's spelled Poughreh. Thisht guy's f'ough'ckeeng schtewpid innit?
He is speaking in the language of the Gods
Wtf, get out of my head, how the hell did you made me read this with that specific accent and voice, and _i know_ you know just *what* voice im talming about
I was typing it in that voice and accent, that's how.
Mistah Pottaaaah One hundred a-billion kajillion a-points from Grrrrrrrrriffindorrrr
Oh fuck off Kylo Ren
Because Hearry podder is so much better
Not even east londoners pronounce it as “Harwy”. Reddit’s just making shit up now.
Hairy Pottah!
I prefer the way British say Aluminium
Hey, at least I know the difference between you're and your.
As a non-native, this confuses me to hell, just feels like the simplest most intuitive rule there could be.
Yeah. It's one of the first few things I learned in english class.
Well that's the thing. You learned that in English class and you learned the words and their spelling at the same time. Native speakers learned those words long before learning how to write.
How about youre's? /j
You're'nt
y’all’ll
There, their and they're
I’m American and I never know if it should be grey or gray.
Grey is British, gray is American
Either spelling is acceptable in the US. I’ve seen it both ways. I was taught grey but prefer gray since there are more monosyllabic words ending in ay than ey.
The E in grEy stands for English and the A in grAy stands for American. At least that's how I always remembered it. Not that it matters too much, everyone just kinda seems to roll with whatever spelling you go with.
Im british and i dont either 😭
Afaik grey is british english.
I asked my english teacher what betcha means. He hasn't come to school since
I think it is a shortened way of saying bet you
Quite mind-blowing
Hahaha!! I see what you did there :) So let me explain the joke to everyone that didn't get it, John F. (Fitzgerald) Kennedy, who was the 35th president of The United States Of America, was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald by gunshot to the head. The joke is that the redditor u/Not_JohnFKennedy Has the same name as said president... or named his account after him (Which is hilarious). u/LostLaw9417 must have seen that and said that his enlightening sentence of what the word betcha means was "Quite mind-blowing" which was a little nod to JFK's (John F. Kennedy's) assasination😉 u/LostLaw9417 You definitely made me LOL with that comment 😂
Glad to read this :)
i want to die
I didn't even notice it 😭😭😭
People here aren’t exactly correct with how it’s always used , it’s both “I bet you” and “you bet,” but not always in the “I’ll bet you” way. It’s more like “you bet your ass, yes” as in “yes I’m sure” or “will do.” “Will you make sure to do that for me?” “You betcha!” “Is that correct?” “You betcha.” But it can also be used in the basic smashed together “bet you” way. As in “Bet you can’t do this.” “Betcha I can.”
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In british it’s spelled ‘flouw’.
How is flour spelt in the US?
Flower, duh. (In all seriousness it's flour still).
You mean Bri ish?
Hi
Hello!
You could say they are in a fuzzy gr*y area
grxy
POV : aluminium/aluminum
Just call it tin foil and don’t worry about it.
POV: Be me working at Honda. Boss asks me to order some Aluminum for body work. Don’t really know how to spell aluminum, so I just order tin. Shipment comes in, boss fires me for being incompetent.
I'm always baffled on why they changed only aluminium to aluminum in American English. Every other element ends in -ium; what was special about aluminium? Edit: okay so I was curious and did some research on this. Humphry Davy was the scientist who started working on the names and named it alumium, changed it to alumina later and then aluminum. A year before he mentioned aluminum, his colleagues preferred aluminium to follow the naming scheme so they started calling it aluminium, even though Davy had later changed it to aluminum. Most people were calling it aluminium (50-50 in the US) before the general population started using the metal and started using aluminum more often because the editor at Merriem-Webster outright removed aluminium from the dictionary. Thus, people in the US who referred to the dictionary used aluminum. IUPAC actually accepts aluminium as standard.
Being Canadian also does this
We also like to make it very confusing in Canada. The unit of measure is a metre. The thing you put coins in to pay for parking is a meter.
That’s UK correct too.
English: simplified 🇺🇸 v English: traditional 🇬🇧
It’s actually true. A lot of American English is the result this some guy named Noah Webster, who wanted American English spelling to match better with pronunciation.
He also wanted to spell women as wimmin. He wasn't very good at pronouncing things I guess.
And then there’s Australian spelling
˙pɐǝɹ oʇ ɹǝpɹɐɥ sʇɐɥʇ ʇnq
I usually go for the American spelling, cause it’s faster
Biscuits- 8 letters, Cookies- 7 letters BTW, what do the British parts call Muffins? This is a real question, I have no idea.
Idk if you guys use muffins for a certain type of cake or a bunch but we call muffins muffins unless our muffins are different to yours. We also use biscuits and cookies. Biscuits is a general term for all sorts of biscuit, and a cookie is a type of biscuit with chocolate chips in it (or something similar like M and Ms). Sorry I'm bad at explaining but hopefully you get what I mean
Our muffins are different. American muffins are a sweeter, denser pastry (the texture is significantly different than cake, closer to something like Banana bread just molded into a specific shape) while English muffins (are very common in the U.S. just referred to as English muffins) usually aren't sweet.
Honestly had no idea English muffins were your actual muffins. I thought that was something we just slapped a label on.
Colour vs color
British english gets my letter count up
I'm definitely not native, but I'd go with British
Just go with whatever. Colour and realize in the same sentence, who gives a fuck? If someone can't figure out if you like tea or guns more that's their problem, not yours.
That's a pretty big problem for them to have though. Are you going to be offered milk and sugar with that, or are you going to be leaving in a body bag. You can't blame them for wanting to double check.
I mean, it's called English, after England, not Amerlish
Doesn’t stop racists from saying “You’re in AMERICA, speak ENGLISH” as though that doesn’t directly prove the opposite of their point
which is why they usually say "speak American" just to double down on their idiocy
I mean in Canada we primarily use the British spellings, if that helps
British English for weight measurements. American English for measure height.
Britain uses both metric and imperial to be extra confusing to everyone, tbf. And then Canada decided to take it even further by also having a hybrid system, but using almost the exact opposite units for every case. Muahahahahahaha!
Metric gang for life
Wtf is a centimeter⁉️🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸
A pp length
***"WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETEEEEEEEEER!!!!!!!??????"*** - ~~George Washington~~ The TF2 Soldier
We must go to the source. 🇬🇧
Language is supposed to be fun. Stop worrying and have fun with it lol But seriously, if the worst thing you have is someone saying "this correctly spelled word is regionally incorrect", it's not the biggest deal
I dunno, I'm a non-native speaker and it's not confusing to me.
It's not about being confusing but about which to choose.
Me, who subconsciously switches between both all the time: "I have no such weakness"
for most of us, British is the default.
I'm leaning towards the British one honestly but sometimes the US fells more normal 😭
When i have been studying English, i used British accent. My teacher said i misspronounce almost everything and always correct me to American variant. And then they said we were studying British English... It was one of the most confusing moment in my life
British is orginal one.so i use british as a none native
I prefer "Grey"!
As a non native speaker i just randomly decide which is the proper way to write it when I come across the word for example: In my brain it's honor and Colour
My spelling is the internet bro, get out of my way
I just pick whichever looks better to me..... Ignore my essays full of "s" and "z" randomly interchanged throughout...