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.
Hitleer?
Bravo.
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.
Well done on proving his point…
We’ve got too many vowels? Try a list of Sri Lankan cricketers.
Let’s leave Dennis Lillee out of this. It was a regrettable incident which I’m sure will never happen again.
Persounalluy, I doun’t seue the proubleum.
It took me a while, but I just got that one…
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.)
In the US, there are EFL classes for Brits that want to immigrate.
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 I started on the subject.