AFP News ridiculous spelling blunder. .

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This is their headline on Yahoo News. North Korea defence chief ‘executed with anti-aircraft fire’

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-defence-minister-executed-korea-intelligence-004740331.html
:dubious: Sheesh a eight year old knows better than that. Is this the editor’s day off? Its even misspelled in the URL.

Oh, I am glad Kim is screwing up just like Stalin. Stalin purged his top generals in the 1930’s leaving Russia defenseless when the Nazis attacked. Lets hope Kim continues killing anybody halfway competent in his government.

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Which word is spelled wrong?

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I’ll ask the same question.

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CNN’s editor was on duty today. Defense is spelled with an S. Kids learn that in 2nd grade. Da Plane, Da Plane, De Fence, De Fence sounds like that little person shouting and pointing on Fantasy Island. :wink:

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Guess that depends where you attended 2nd grade.

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Yes, in the U.S. But in G.B., Australia…

You did mention AFP is a global news agency.

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In the U.K. it’s spelled “defence”.

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It looks perfectly fine to this Canadian.

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I had never noticed an alternate Euro spelling for defense. I guess my eyes just automatically read it the right way. For some reason today that seemingly misspelled headline stood out like a flashing neon sign.

Never mind. Nothing to see here. :o

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Even as an #merican I think it makes more sense spelt ‘defence’.

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De fence is in De backyard. The dog done peed on it. :wink:

As my Cajun relatives are known to say. LOL I love hearing their Cajun accents. I regret not being taught Cajun French growing up.

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This is their headline on Yahoo News. North Korea defence chief ‘executed with anti-aircraft fire’

http://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-defence-minister-executed-korea-intelligence-004740331.html
:dubious: Sheesh a eight year old knows better than that. Is this the editor’s day off? Its even misspelled in the URL.

. . . and shouldn’t that be “an” eight year old since the word following the a . . . oh you know; also, it sounds better than “a eight year old.”

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The Cajuns were expelled from Canada for poor spelling.

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You’re correct. The word an is used when the next word starts with a vowel.

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Stop flashing, ace. There are webcams for that.

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Defence in Commonwealth English, but curiously, spellings of words based on it:
Defensive
Defenceless
Defensible

Similar sort story for licence - turns into licensed and licensing.

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We spell it with an “s”, but that stop people from holding up those D-fence micro-rebuses at football games? Nooooooo . . .

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Does anyone differentiate between practise and practice any more? Canada is always caught in the middle of these debates. When I was growing up practice was the noun, and practise was the verb. So you’d go to hockey practice, to practise hockey.

But we seem to have adopted the US version of practice for both now.

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I guess that’s an honest assessment.
Oh.

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You mean a vowel sound.