Actually, according to Merriam Webster’s, that word comes from a Greek root meaning “anointed” which is also the root of the word “grease”. 
It’s not the name of Jeshua Bin Joseph, so “the” is actually appropriate.
Anytime someone uses :: shrug ::: as their whole reply or in part. I don’t know why, but it grates on me the same way as if someone says “whatever” in conversation. It just seems so disrespectful and condescending. Although I’m certain that’s not always the case.
Now I’ll wait patiently for another poster to use it in this thread. 
The correct spelling other then here maybe. We mostly don’t care about it. At one time we must have cared because we changed it. I currently find it a slight annoyance on the off chance I notice it.
I would like to congratulate you on subtle creativity in the second (Would you prefer secound? Well too bad!) sentence. The first one was just a pot shot at a typo so I’m deducting .5 from your score and only giving you a score of 4.3 out of a possible 5.
I think most Americans prefer to add to the “colour” of our vocabulary by inventing new words and new meanings for words, not archaic rules that serve no appearant function.
That is a good example of a usefull u. Fried do***ghnuts sound gross.
*short o as in top
Yuck! This is a commonly held view although, admittedly, less so on these boards. It allows creationists to insinuate Intelligent Design into the American curriculum and Blair is predictably following suit. Across the pond. It’s intellectually and morally devoid and the oxygen that Oprah and the rest of the New Age thrive on. To think this view is ascendant in the countries that gave us giants like Jefferson and Darwin makes me think they’d be spinning in their graves. Fortunately, those same countries produced Chomsky and Dawkins so the fight is not over.
Also, although not a cliché, Americans using England to mean the UK drives me nuts. Tony Blair is the Prime Minister and incidentally he is English. However, he is the British prime minister. Understanding this distinction can be useful to Americans in some Glasgow pubs for example. You’ll still be called a cunt but Scots (not Scotch) can vary the intonation enormously when you call them English.
What about the g and the h then? Those are completely useless letters. Doughnuts should be written doenuts. What? You don’t have a problem with doughnuts? Don’t see why you should have a problem with colour then.
I can certainly understand that you spell it color and that you’d consider it “wrong” for one of your american children (if you have or will have any) to spell it the other way, but I find it bizarre that it could be an irritation to you.
My input on this subject:
“My $0.02…” or “My two cents…” bugs me, but I can’t think of a better way to say it succinctly.
Judgement and judgment are both correct spellings, for the record.
People who write “alot” when they mean a bunch of stuff should be beaten regularly. This one is going to put me in an early grave. IT’S “A LOT”, PEOPLE!!! TWO SEPARATE WORDS!!!
Earl of the CC, is making sweet monkey love acceptable?
Just want to say-- this phrase written by look!ninjas:
“Pardon me, dude, but if you would pass the tea whilst I butter these scones, that would be rad of you.”
Should be permanently whitelisted on this board.
“Whinging” always sets my teeth on edge, PERIOD. I’m not one for the whole “we’re the most important, do it our way” imperialist schtick, but that is one British spelling I would love to see annihilated from the face of the planet. I hate it.
Can I vote to add “hubby” to the list? HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!
I say “by the by” occasionally. Survey says?
The Romans didn’t have those extra Us.
color, coloris
honor, honoris
labor, laboris
Actually I do have a problem with many facets of English spelling, including the American version. Have you ever looked at it? So many things screwy and just plain dumb. When English spelling was standardized they must have been nuts.
Although I think doughnuts is okay. Doenuts just sounds like deer ovairys
Ah, CheekyMonkey, you silly bitch. There you go again slagging the U.S. due to your inferiority complex. It wasn’t laziness that caused us to get rid of the “u” in so many English words. It was the work of a lexicographer by the name of Noah Webster, who wished to simplify many English spellings. It caught on in the U.S., but nowhere else.
Believe it or not, English has many spellings that make no sense whatsoever, due to it being a hodge podge of many different languages (Northern European, with a generous dash of Latin, plus additions from any other language English speakers heard). The only way these spellings actually make any sense is if one is aware of the history of the language, which you, apparently, are not.
“Laziness,” indeed! Stupid bitch!
Mmmmm doenuts with cream and strawberry jam…
You’re right, English in general is screwy, dumb, illogical and illconceived. Given the general reaction to whether colour should have a u or not, and whether “h” should be aitch or haitch, I think it will be a long arduous process to simplify things.
Just watchout for the bucknuts.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
“appropriate”… NOT CARING NOT CARING… scrape scalp repeatedly with abandon…bleeds profusely. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
“Judgment” is the preferred American; “judgement” is more acceptable in England.
Kinda wrong on both counts. Sorry, Gest.
Regarding my “opinion” thing, that was mostly tongue in cheek. I agree that in certain discussions, some better-informed opinions are more equal than others. Note that the post you quoted was meant to be funny.
As to your second point, England is the island, the geographical place called England. “English” is a geographic and, for want of a better word, racial, term. “Britain” is a political term, referring to the United Kingdom of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and is therefore nearly synonymous with “UK.”
Actually, rereading, this may be what you were saying. A little confusing, so if I just restated your position, disregard.
No no no no no not again. Thrice no. Stop perpetuating this nonsense. The island is Great Britain which is subdivided into three nations: England, Scotland, and Wales.
The UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
On the other hand I understand you guys use “English” (the nationality of people from England) and “British” (the nationality of people from the UK) rather interchangeably, and it does bug me, but it’s no worse than us using the word “Yank” for you lot - inaccurate but forgiveable.
FYI (I did this, so don’t take it as canon!)
Around the time the movie was released, I remember reading something James Cameron said to the effect that that’s how they said the names of ships in those days.
I understand that this usage is correct. This does not mean it was not annoying in the film. I kept waiting for someone, anyone, in the movie to be a normal fallible human and just say “the Titanic”, but no-one ever did. Not even the modern day characters, at least one of whom shouldn’t have known better.