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"Fred Hall" |
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13 Feb 2005 02:20:40 AM |
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PING |-|erc |
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
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| User: "|-|erc" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 02:32:55 AM |
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"Fred Hall" <fkhall@databasix.com> wrote in ...
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
you pinged me for that?
Herc
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| User: "Fred Hall" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 02:42:57 AM |
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:32:55 +1000, "|-|erc" <h@r.c> wrote:
"Fred Hall" <fkhall@databasix.com> wrote in ...
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
you pinged me for that?
Who else could I have asked?
Herc
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| User: "|-|erc" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 03:29:43 AM |
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"Fred Hall" <fkhall@databasix.com> wrote in > >>
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
you pinged me for that?
Who else could I have asked?
It would be a spelling mistake to use favorite in Australia but usenet is not in Australia,
I type <center> and <font color="red"> and document.favorites when making websites
so they stuck.
Herc
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| User: "Fred Hall" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 03:41:55 AM |
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:29:43 +1000, "|-|erc" <h@r.c> wrote:
"Fred Hall" <fkhall@databasix.com> wrote in > >>
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
you pinged me for that?
Who else could I have asked?
It would be a spelling mistake to use favorite in Australia but usenet is not in Australia,
I type <center> and <font color="red"> and document.favorites when making websites
so they stuck.
Got it in one, |-|erc.
That's what I needed to know in order to make an informed decision.
Thanks.
Herc
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| User: "Olaf Timandahaff" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 02:40:41 AM |
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In article <6v2u01pl3ci3piol1dt1e3esg738sahsqs@4ax.com>,
fkhall@databasix.com had this to say about that...
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
It would be interesting to know if they say "Z" as,
Zed or Zee as well. I bet it's 50/50 up here in Caca-nada.
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| User: "Peter Bowditch" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
17 Feb 2005 01:12:14 AM |
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Olaf Timandahaff <Timandahaff@myrealbox.com> wrote:
In article <6v2u01pl3ci3piol1dt1e3esg738sahsqs@4ax.com>,
fkhall@databasix.com had this to say about that...
|-|erc, I know you and I have had our differnces, but I'm curious.
I know in the UK favorite is spelled 'favourite'.
How do you Aussies spell it. Just real curious, no trick question.
It would be interesting to know if they say "Z" as,
Zed or Zee as well. I bet it's 50/50 up here in Caca-nada.
favourite
zed
--
Peter Bowditch
The Millenium Project
http://www.ratbags.com/rsoles
Australian Council Against Health Fraud
http://www.acahf.org.au
To email me use my first name only at ratbags.com
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| User: "sceptborg" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 04:42:15 AM |
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Olaf Timandahaff wrote:
It would be interesting to know if they say "Z" as,
Zed or Zee as well. I bet it's 50/50 up here in Caca-nada.
Even after being pounded by US TV and movies for all these years most
people pronounce it Zed.
There is a great 8 part doco running at present in Oz on the
development, spread and differences in English, narrated by Melvyn Bragg.
Amazing how American English took so few words from the natives, and just
how many words come from gambling on the riverboats.
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| User: "Bookman" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 12:47:42 PM |
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"sceptborg" <thereisnone@tall.com> wrote in message
news:420F2F14.88B8421E@tall.com...
Olaf Timandahaff wrote:
It would be interesting to know if they say "Z" as,
Zed or Zee as well. I bet it's 50/50 up here in Caca-nada.
Even after being pounded by US TV and movies for all these years most
people pronounce it Zed.
There is a great 8 part doco running at present in Oz on the
development, spread and differences in English, narrated by Melvyn Bragg.
Amazing how American English took so few words from the natives, and just
how many words come from gambling on the riverboats.
Depends on what you mean by "words". Place names taken
from American Indian language positively little the countryside.
ESL!
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Bookman -The Official Overseer of Kooks and Trolls in AFA-B
Kazoo Konspirator #668 (The Neighbor of the Beast)
Clue-Bat Wrangler
Keeper of the Nickname Lists
Despotic Kookologist of the New World Order
"I'd love to kill you in a ring" - Bartmo gets all touchy-feely
"****SPV....... So yes I am an idiot."
http://www.insurgent.org/~kook-faq/afa-b/
http://www.insurgent.org/~kook-faq/afa-b/index.html
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| User: "Olaf Timandahaff" |
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| Title: Re: PING |-|erc |
13 Feb 2005 12:45:24 PM |
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In<420F2F14.88B8421E@tall.com>, sceptborg dropped this bomb:
Olaf Timandahaff wrote:
It would be interesting to know if they say "Z" as,
Zed or Zee as well. I bet it's 50/50 up here in Caca-nada.
Even after being pounded by US TV and movies for all these years most
people pronounce it Zed.
There is a great 8 part doco running at present in Oz on the
development, spread and differences in English, narrated by Melvyn Bragg.
Amazing how American English took so few words from the natives, and just
how many words come from gambling on the riverboats.
Can you give a few examples of riverboat words?
I'm thinking maybe,
busted
pass
That sort of thing.
I never really noticed that, so much as expressions can mean different
things in different parts of NA.
I had this friend from Colorado up in Banff Alberta and the first time we
met [in a bar] he says,
"hey buddy, how're y'all doin', you from 'round heah?
"eh?"
"Whatta ya do'in?"
"getting pissed"
"Why?"
"are you from AA or WTF?"
",the *****? you need a kick in the ***** boy?"
"eh?"
"You said yer gittin' mad, and I asked WHY, you fuckin' dumbass!
"oh no, I said I was getting pissed"
",the ***** does that mean round heah?
"getting drunk"
"OH-h0!, I'm gonna get pissed now!"
[and so on]
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