Kerb, tyre and Hoover are a hard no for me. Two are weird and one is a trademarked brand name (yes, I say facial tissue not Kleenex) I wouldn’t Dyson my living room so why would I Hoover it?
We already say fish & chips and we have chip wagons not food trucks. I’m happy with that and spelling colour and flavour with a “u”. Cheque with the “que” is always going to be better than “check”. Lorry sounds silly, I’d rather use their other commonly used term “HGV”. I’ll add that I say trash bin rather than garbage can.
Last but not least… it’s pronounced zed not zee!!
English is defined by popularity, not managed by rules. So, English is ruled by whatever the mob wants, just like ignorant racism in early 1900s America: mob rule.
In this case, the largest group of English speakers is in India. That accent is a little too Mumbai for me, young man: get it back to Received Delhi Standard by next review or you’re fired.
I spell everything the English way… the language is called English so by definition, they are correct in everything.
I’ve adopted tyres and kerb into my daily spelling
Their words are better too… lorry > truck, hoover > vacuum, chips > fries…
I urge all canadians to start using more british english in daily speak.
And if it pisses off the yanks and albertans, even better
Hey, I use the King’s English, thank you very much!
I strongly agree! Canadians need to shed the americanization of our form of english.
Americanisation?
Time to stop pronouncing your Rs, then!
Another idea: do something actually useful in government.
Kerb, tyre and Hoover are a hard no for me. Two are weird and one is a trademarked brand name (yes, I say facial tissue not Kleenex) I wouldn’t Dyson my living room so why would I Hoover it? We already say fish & chips and we have chip wagons not food trucks. I’m happy with that and spelling colour and flavour with a “u”. Cheque with the “que” is always going to be better than “check”. Lorry sounds silly, I’d rather use their other commonly used term “HGV”. I’ll add that I say trash bin rather than garbage can. Last but not least… it’s pronounced zed not zee!!
I didn’t know there were special tissues for cumblasts only
I love this, and agree. Also why France gets to decide what proper French is.
lol linguists hate this one weird trick that killed entire branches of studies
English is defined by popularity, not managed by rules. So, English is ruled by whatever the mob wants, just like ignorant racism in early 1900s America: mob rule.
In this case, the largest group of English speakers is in India. That accent is a little too Mumbai for me, young man: get it back to Received Delhi Standard by next review or you’re fired.
But I draw the line at gaol
And tyre.
I don’t know, the vowels in written words are pretty much random anyway.
What about “aluminium”?
That’s actually the original title for the element, for what it’s worth.
And orientated.
or “burglarized”, not actually an English word.
Straight to gaol!
Is this where that comes from? I always called “evergaols” in Elden ring “ever-gay-ol’s” until like this month when I found out what gaol was lmao