Posted : 2/27/2008 10:41:56 PM
http://starrgazr.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/john-cleeses-letter-to-america/
Cleese pleese. (The man is just too funny.)
Posted : 2/27/2008 11:08:19 PM
*my husband did NOT write that* ... (Callie repeating to self as if a mantra ... but dang ... he says ALL those things all the time!)
Posted : 2/27/2008 11:48:03 PM
US English default dictionaries drive me INSANE! Have you ever tried to change that? It's not easy!
Posted : 2/28/2008 3:16:06 PM
Honestly - with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 of these suggestions, I think implementing most of them might just be an improvement.
Joyce
Posted : 2/28/2008 6:08:12 PM
The Spelling and Metric might come in handy for sure! Then I can quit trying to remember to drop the 'u' and convert stuff to miles, which by the way, nobody outside of your country understands!
Posted : 2/28/2008 7:04:58 PM
With my particular distaste for the letter 'z' I've been using -ise for quite a while. (Even in college papers I turn in.) I've also spontaneously added 'u' to appropriate words and been reluctant to change them. (Just figured out why "neighbor" looked so odd... it's missing it's u!)
Posted : 2/28/2008 7:37:54 PM
I wish to GOD we would switch to metric. It makes no sense at all, and it's really frustrating to think in miles, inches, pounds and fluid ounces when the rest of the world thinks in meters, grams, and liters.
