Common language??

"Ian" wrote in news:ccic42$iaj$1
@hercules.btinternet.com:

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by a common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer to when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??

Nope, that’s the way we’uns spells it ’round these parts.

I find the differences in phrases/phrasing to be a lot more amusing.

"Knock up," for example.

"Ian" wrote in message

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by a common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer to when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??
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www.micromountain.com

Try being Canadian. With mostly British usage but mostly American vocabulary, we are truly a confused lot.

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by a common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer

to

when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??

Nope, that’s the way we’uns spells it ’round these parts.
I find the differences in phrases/phrasing to be a lot more amusing.
"Knock up," for example.

We have ‘take out’ or ‘to go’. When I was ‘down there’ I noticed you had ‘take away’.
I’m talking about food.
Keith

"Ian" wrote in message

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by a common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer to when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??

Wherever you are, ‘flourescent’ is just plain wrong. It’s ‘fluorescent’ because it’s about the principle of fluorescence which certain minerals and other substances exhibit as a property, such as fluorite. Flourescent may well be a term from the baking industry, meaning "having the properties of flour". But I doubt it.

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:59:02 GMT, Eric Gill
wrote:

"Ian" wrote in news:ccic42$iaj$1
@hercules.btinternet.com:

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by a common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer to when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??

Nope, that’s the way we’uns spells it ’round these parts.
I find the differences in phrases/phrasing to be a lot more amusing.
"Knock up," for example.

That’s because you didn’t erase your mistake with a rubber….

—

Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

Somebody once said that the US and the UK were two counries divided by

a

common language.

Over the years I’ve made a small list of spelling differences to refer

to

when I use search engines

I notice that CS still has the action called ‘Flourescent chalk’
Is this a US spelling of Fluorescent or is it just a typo ??

Nope, that’s the way we’uns spells it ’round these parts.
I find the differences in phrases/phrasing to be a lot more amusing.
"Knock up," for example.

That’s because you didn’t erase your mistake with a rubber….

Hecate

veni, vidi, reliqui

rubber in North America . . . advertising campaign:

Use Trojan rubbers. Erases mistakes before they happen.

heh,heh,heh I thought of that all by myself.
Keith

Hecate wrote in
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That’s because you didn’t erase your mistake with a rubber….

Long ago, when I sold computers and floppy drives were still in use, 3 1/2" disks usually shipped with a little plastic sleeve. Running joke at the store was that they were "Disk Condoms," and you couldn’t get a virus if you left them on.

It was true in it’s own way, of course – you’re not going to get anything off that disk with a plastic sleeve still in place. We’re just lucky no customer actually hosed one of their drives.

Some actually believed us, till we hastily let them in on the joke.