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10-03-2008, 07:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | i think i need to stop reading books by british authors.
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I have been told that i am starting to spell certain words incorrectly such as colour, honour, and favour. One of my friends even told me to seek immediate help. 
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10-03-2008, 07:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia | | Good, you're learning to spell it the right way. 
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10-03-2008, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ROON  Good, you're learning to spell it the right way. | Agreed  |
10-03-2008, 07:38 AM
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10-03-2008, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hampshire, UK | | | ah, the influence of la belle france
american english allegedly resembles old english more accurately.
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10-03-2008, 07:54 AM
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Originally Posted by sensible68
american english allegedly resembles old english more accurately.
| It does indeed. Words like "gotten" died out here centuries ago, but are still in common use in the US today, apparently. |
10-03-2008, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by sensible68 ah, the influence of la belle france
american english allegedly resembles old english more accurately. | That is correct, in most cases, the US spelling is the "correct" English spelling before the English moved to a more French style of spelling.
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10-03-2008, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Latimour That is correct, in most cases, the US spelling is the "correct" English spelling before the English moved to a more French style of spelling. | The English language had always had a high degree of French influence going back millenia. Colour, for example, in the English language has always been colour AFAIK. |
10-03-2008, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by EchoEcho The English language had always had a high degree of French influence going back millenia. Colour, for example, in the English language has always been colour AFAIK. | True, but your statement and mine are not mutually exclusive.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia Most words ending in unstressed -our in the United Kingdom (e.g., colour, flavour, honour, armour, rumour) end in -or in the United States (i.e., color, flavor, honor, armor, rumor). Where the vowel is unreduced, this does not occur: contour, paramour, troubadour, are spelled thus everywhere. Most words of this category derive from Latin non-agent nouns having nominative -or; the first such borrowings into English were from early Old French and the ending was -or or -ur.[19] After the Norman Conquest, the termination became -our in Anglo-French in an attempt to represent the Old French pronunciation of words ending in -or,[20] though color has been used occasionally in English since the fifteenth century.[21] The -our ending was not only retained in English borrowings from Anglo-French, but also applied to earlier French borrowings.[22] After the Renaissance, some such borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or termination; many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) now end in -or everywhere. Many words of the -our/-or group do not have a Latin counterpart; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor, a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th and early 17th century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words of Latin origin (e.g. color[21]) and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not completely clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only.[23] |
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker you're nothing but a **** stirring troll | Set your expectations accordingly.
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10-03-2008, 08:19 AM
|  | Unprofessional TalkBass Contributor | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Brighton, England, UK, Europe | | Wikipseudopoda is the last thing from which I would take advice on this !! 
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10-03-2008, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Wikipseudopoda is the last thing from which I would take advice on this !! | Feel free to look it up elsewhere, the result won't change!
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker you're nothing but a **** stirring troll | Set your expectations accordingly.
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10-03-2008, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Wikipseudopoda is the last thing from which I would take advice on this !! | You're going to have to come to grips with it sooner or later, Bruce. Wikipedia is very well moderated these days. |
10-03-2008, 08:27 AM
| | | | Wikipedia articles on languages are quite good. They have one about the differences between spanish and portuguese that is quite incredible.
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10-03-2008, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Human Bass Wikipedia articles on languages are quite good. They have one about the differences between spanish and portuguese that is quite incredible. | Their technical and science articles are also very good. When we need to look something up at work we check Wikipedia first and then verify it, usually from a text. I have yet to see an engineering or physics article that was wrong. |
10-03-2008, 08:30 AM
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10-03-2008, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield Wikipseudopoda is the last thing from which I would take advice on this !! | Did you mean to call it "wiki false foot"?
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10-03-2008, 08:31 AM
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10-03-2008, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield If I want real knowledge I will read books! | Well, that goes a long way to explaining why your knowledge is so behind the times.
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10-03-2008, 08:32 AM
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10-03-2008, 08:40 AM
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