Hey,now, @nasher! Just because we have prettier cousins over here is no reason to go sour.
19th Apr 2024 2:10 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
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Nasher wrote:
Hei Kajtzu, ole hyvä.
Having spent quite a bit of time in Tampere over the years I was a little surprised you favoured the spelling of our Blueberry pie eating, cousin ing, neighbours from over the thankfully wide ocean.
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Tampere, colloquially known as manse or Finland’s Manchester
In my defense I used to live on the other side of the pond so…
19th Apr 2024 7:55 pm
Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
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* defence. An ex-Disco3 / FFRR owner ......
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19th Apr 2024 8:38 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
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I bet you guys write color wrong, too
19th Apr 2024 8:43 pm
GrumpyPenguin
Member Since: 06 Mar 2024
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I got caught as the lead car behind the Highways Officer's car performing a rolling-roadblock on the M4 yesterday. I couldn't see the reason, but just sat there for an hour until it cleared. Just how important, impatient or nosey do people have to be to get out of their cars and walk to the front (sometimes for quite some distance) just to find out what the hold-up is? I thought the Highways Office was quite patient! A quick Google and a Bristol News site had the reason (a horse that wouldn't go into a different horse-box after the one in which it was originally travelling broke-down).
As for the car to my right and their loud heavy-bass Bangra music through lowered windows...
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I believe that "ax", "color", etc., are historically correct, it is just that the UK diverted slightly,
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21st Apr 2024 9:44 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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But as the language is English, by definition our* version is always correct.
* I mean the English, obviously.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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21st Apr 2024 10:30 pm
GrumpyPenguin
Member Since: 06 Mar 2024
Location: Thanet Kent
Posts: 12
HWN wrote:
I believe that "ax", "color", etc., are historically correct, it is just that the UK diverted slightly,
That may be so, also, US speeling may often be more phonetically correct.
However, the language is called English and that's the way the English use it in this day and age. If other nations don't like it then tough.
Personally, I feel that encouraging "Creeping Americanisms" should be a hanging offense.
It's about time that "Johnny Foreigner" was put back into place "
2015 Volvo V40
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22nd Apr 2024 9:07 am
icestationzebra
Member Since: 05 Nov 2008
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offense?
22nd Apr 2024 10:03 am
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22nd Apr 2024 10:13 am
GrumpyPenguin
Member Since: 06 Mar 2024
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icestationzebra wrote:
offense?
My TIC posts often contain things to see if people bite &/or are paying attention...........
2 down, 1 to go.......
22nd Apr 2024 10:31 am
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
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Moo wrote:
It's Oesophagus not Esophagus!
Sulphur not Sulfer, too!Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
22nd Apr 2024 10:56 am
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ing, neighbours from over the thankfully wide ocean.
