# Ye' ever read people who add extra o's and u's to words? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977 "2013-03-15T03:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/21 "2013-03-17T02:21:31Z")
You want a bunch of extra O’s and U’s? Ask a ninth grader to spell phosphorus. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/22 "2013-03-17T02:44:18Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > You want a bunch of extra O’s and U’s? Ask a ninth grader to spell phosphorus. I doubt most 9th graders could even find Turkey or its waterways on a map. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/23 "2013-03-17T04:50:17Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I seem to remember a famous politician who added an extra E to a word. Hitleer? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/24 "2013-03-17T05:20:01Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I doubt most 9th graders could even find Turkey or its waterways on a map. Bravo. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/25 "2013-03-17T17:35:08Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > I doubt most 9th graders could even find Turkey or its waterways on a map. What is this a reference to? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/26 "2013-03-17T17:50:47Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > What is this a reference to? The Bosphorus is the strait in Turkey that divides Europe and Asia. It connects the Black Sea and (eventually) the Mediterranean. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/27 "2013-03-17T18:20:15Z")
> [@mr.jp](#): > > What is this a reference to? Well done on proving his point… ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/28 "2013-03-17T23:19:22Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > And that’s why you lost the Empire: too much time wasted writing all those extra vowels. _We’ve_ got too many vowels? Try a list of [Sri Lankan cricketers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sri_Lanka_Test_cricketers). > [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > They should be beaten with aluminum bats. Let’s leave Dennis Lillee out of this. It was a regrettable incident which I’m sure will never happen again. ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/29 "2013-03-17T23:45:47Z")
Persounalluy, I doun’t seue the proubleum. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/30 "2013-03-18T00:20:56Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > I seem to remember a famous politician who added an extra E to a word. It took me a while, but I just got that one…😃 ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/31 "2013-03-18T04:06:47Z")
my grandmother (who was from Ireland) had taught me to read and write before I entered in school and it was full on WARFARE when it came to spelling tests because damn it, my “colour” was perfectly legitimate!!! It took my 4 ft 9 grandmother showing up at school and pouring some Irish diplomacy into more than a few peoples ears to resolve the matter. In later years I was secretary to an employer who actually requested that all the other secretaries adapt the British spellings after seeing me use them because he thought it was “classier” (I hated it and it made me unpopular, I thought he was a prat and if you made leather from brains he wouldn’t have had enough to saddle a june bug…and yes, it’s damn odd to hear someone using Irish and British slang in a southern accent but tough shit.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/32 "2013-03-18T05:01:20Z")
In the US, there are EFL classes for Brits that want to immigrate. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977/33 "2013-03-18T13:33:00Z")
Hey! If I read a book by a Brit or Aussie, I want to read the original (with all the o’s and u’s and biscuits) and not a translation. ETA: Dug up a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570195) I started on the subject. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ye-ever-read-people-who-add-extra-os-and-us-to-words/652977.md?page=1)