Hello, all-- Well, I suppose that I am the person to be put in jail for starting this thread. I have to add this: We drive on the parkway, and we park in the driveway. I didn't invent this, unfortunately, but I can't credit whoever did. At 09:05 PM 9/10/2005 -0400, elefino wrote:
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On Thursday 08 September 2005 07:49, Kevanf1 wrote: [...]
Plus its vs it's, as well as its' (yes, I've seen that one, too).
Homophones are horrible aren't they?
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It gets worse when you look at spellings. Color in the US is the same as colour in the UK. There are others....
Try being Canadian. We grow up learning mostly Brit spelling in school (though most of the magazines and books that we read are American), then we get jobs and have to switch to American spellings for all correspondence because most of our employers are owned by American companies, or most of our biggest customers are American.
So, when we install SuSE and YaST asks which language and which keyboard... there's always a moment of panic. A 'Canadian' keyboard includes the French accents but, in order to do so, misplaces half a dozen punctuation marks... but then puts all the French stuff in places that French-from-France people would never think to look. (Now, where DID I put that cedilla?)
But it's still 'zed', not 'zeeee'. :-)
Kevin (which must be the Canadian spelling of 'Kevan'?) ;->
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