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jzs147

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In Australia we measure in cms/mm drive in kms play golf in meters but its comantated in yards an we call gas petrol and buy it in litres.
 

ISK

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And you spell tires like tyres :lol:
There are 1738 words that are spelt differently between the UK & USA.

Here in Canada we are somewhere in the middle, as I spell "litre" like the Brits, many Canadians would spell it "liter" like the Americans.

Our biggest confusion is volume, as not only is the size of a UK gallon larger than the US gallon, the number of ounces differs.

If you ask a Canadian how many ounces in a pint, they will likely say 16 which is correct for a US pint, but a UK pint is actually 20 ounces.

We Canadians used the Imperial (British) system , but never really understood that we were all mixed up with US standards.

My buddy said that he never uses Fahrenheit, so I asked him what temperature does he roasts a chicken....he says 375....I ask, would that be C or F?

As long as America continues to use their outdated measurements and bastardized English, we as Canadians we be stuck in the middle.
 

MustGro

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Here in Canada we usually say spelled not spelt. At least in Eastern Canada.
Is that one of the 1738 words that are different?
Are you from Britain and living in Canada. My neighbor is and uses words like spelt but I don’t know anyone who grew up here that uses it.
 

bk78

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Here in Canada we usually say spelled not spelt. At least in Eastern Canada.
Is that one of the 1738 words that are different?
Are you from Britain and living in Canada. My neighbor is and uses words like spelt but I don’t know anyone who grew up here that uses it.
Here in Canada we spell it neighbour
 

MustGro

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Absolutely yes. I mean it’s what I was taught in school. Did you not go to school?
Shit yeah, got all the way through a few of them, but like I said, maybe it’s regional. I remember colour and litre and neighbour and words like that in school, but they weren’t really pushed on us. Most people I know just dropped out the u. It looks wrong to me in colour. I spell it liter, color and neighbor and the spellchecker on my Canadian tablet lights them up for being wrong.
I’m not too Americanized, I still use through instead of thru, although I like the simplicity of less letters.
 

bk78

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Shit yeah, got all the way through a few of them, but like I said, maybe it’s regional. I remember colour and litre and neighbour and words like that in school, but they weren’t really pushed on us. Most people I know just dropped out the u. It looks wrong to me in colour. I spell it liter, color and neighbor and the spellchecker on my Canadian tablet lights them up for being wrong.
I’m not too Americanized, I still use through instead of thru, although I like the simplicity of less letters.
Never pushed on you, What?

Its literally spelt like this in every school textbook in Canada, it’s the only way I knew how to spell stuff growing up, until the internet came out and I seen the weird american spelling version.
 

MustGro

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From now on I’m bringing my spelling questions to you, I like a person who can spell.
How are you on grammar? The news people here always say pleaded when they talk about someone going to court.
I feel very strongly that it should be pled and not pleaded; am I mistaken?
 

ISK

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Here in Canada we usually say spelled not spelt. At least in Eastern Canada.
Is that one of the 1738 words that are different?
Are you from Britain and living in Canada. My neighbor is and uses words like spelt but I don’t know anyone who grew up here that uses it.
I tend to disagree.....the American English past tense form of spell is "spelled", other varieties of English would typically use "spelt"

BTW: this is not one of the 1738 words spelt differently, this is a variance of grammar standards.

It appears that you are more comfortable using American English spelling & grammar, as opposed to British standards.

I was born and raised in Alberta....we were encouraged to utilize British spelling but were not marked in error if we used American.

cheers
 

myke

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I have a GMC truck that when you want to switch to metric It gives you English or Metric as options. Shouldn't it say Imperial instead of English?.Truck was built in Texas.
 
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