Favourite crappily spelt British word

[dolo amber]

Leaving out the 'ou" instead of 'o' cos that goes without saying...

[Liberal Veteran]

1. I like the word "shat"....

Shit needed a past tense.

[dolo amber]

3. Ooooh....good one

And a personal favorite. :D

[SmileyBoy]

41. You mean "favourite".

:D

[eyesroll]

19. One of my college adviser's favorite phrases:

"I near beshat myself laughing."
He read it in an essay at the beginning of a course, and it stayed with him for weeks.

[Fenris]

2. Encyclopædia

I always think it's encyclopædophile.

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Ligatures make me hard.

[Fenris]

11. Umlauts do it for me

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Actually, pritnear everything makes me hard.

As I am priapic.

[MrScorpio]

4. Labour

I've always like that word

[The Doctor.]

5. I've always been partial to

'Bumbershoot'... It's 'spelt' right but sure is funny.

[Magrittes Pipe]

6. That's "arsebag" for the purposes of this poll.

Moran.

[dolo amber]

10. Bwahahaahaaa!

Touche...arsebag! :P

[TahitiNut]

7. Colour

It has a dour tint.

[bigwillq]

39. I like it spelt this way (nt)

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Dreamt.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Gaol.

As in Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol".

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. Each man kills the thing he loves....

The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

[Fenris]

18. Fag

No, seriously, I need a cigarette.

[Magrittes Pipe]

20. Mmmmm...

I like to suck on fags.

[Fenris]

22. And you like to do it outdoors too.

[Magrittes Pipe]

25. My wife doesn't want me to suck on them in the house.

[swag]

13. Off-topic: AL-YOU-MIN-EE-UM for "aluminum." intentional and

egregious mangling.

[Misunderestimator]

38. That's my pick. And for another off-topic... how about slang? Fanny e.g.

Which means something totally different for them... as well as fag.

[dolo amber]

40. The fanny thing

kills me. :D

[Misunderestimator]

43. Me too...

I had no idea what it meant until I was in Ireland for a while. I said something about some woman's cute fanny and the English and Irish guys fell over themselves laughing at me. Thankfully they told me what it meant.

[Spider Jerusalem]

46. NB: It's spelt "aluminium". Not mispronounced.

Two peoples, separated by a common language...rather like Alsatians and Bavarians, or Colombians and Spaniards...linguistic drift, and all that.

Oh, and I personally rather prefer British/international spelling to American, but then I think that if EVERYONE ELSE in the world who writes in English follows different orthography than Americans, then US English is really the odd man out...

[swag]

49. Thank you for the correction. In that case, my problem with the British

is the Cockney "rhyming slang."

Is that shit supposed to be clever?

You look really clever never knowing what the fuck anybody is talking about, and never standing a chance.

[Spider Jerusalem]

52. Not understanding is sort of the point.

Rhyming slang originated in Cheapside and Whitechapel, in London's East End, in the Victorian era. The original users of rhyming slang were street vendors, pickpockets and petty criminals who wanted to not be understood by customers they were defrauding and police...

[jdonaldball]

16. I met an old English Catholic lady who

was upset that the new catechism spelled "savior" without a "u".
Her Priest had to assure her that the spelling was approved by the Vatican. True story.

[DS1]

17. Towne

You fucking Yanks

[dolo amber]

21. Aye, shut yer gob

ya wee daftie!

:P

[physioex]

23. John Thomas.....eom

[Skittles]

24. when people tell my Brit mum I LOVE YOUR ACCENT

she says, "I'm speaking English; YOU have an accent." No doubt she feels the same way about "crappy spelling". :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. Is your mom disappointed that you KICK ASS instead of ARSE? (nt)

[Skittles]

48. LOL, she calls it BUM

:D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

50. KICK BUM sounds wrong

Like you're beating up a homeless person. :crazy:

[IronLionZion]

26. arse

oh bloody hell, he just shat on a turtle!

[daisygirl]

27. I especially like some of the crazy surname and place name spellings

Cholmondeley (pronounced "chumley") is probably my favorite.

[TlalocW]

28. I'd take this poll

But I've got to drive the lorry to the garage (gah-rahge) to be fixed - something's wrong with the silencer, and there's a funny noise coming from under the bonnet. Then I need to push the pram into the lift and go up to the flat to clean the loo. Then some mates of mine and I are going down to the sweetshop for some biscuits. Afterwards I'm meeting with my brother, the solicitor, and going to the cinema with him. Hopefully, there won't be a long queue. And finally we're going to go get some bangers and crisps and watch the football match on the telly.

So, dreadfully sorry, old chap, but I'm just too terribly busy to take this poll.

TlalocW

[Wilber_Stool]

29. Wanker.___n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Paedophilia.

Oh, and foetus.

What?

[dolo amber]

32. Just cos you're here

:loveya:

[Fenris]

33. You have a foetal fetish.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

34. I have very catholic tastes, my dear boy.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. Minger.

[Khephra]

36. ARSE!

Gods, I can't believe that one was left out.

[achtung_circus]

37. Forsooth,

not necessarily in everyday usage, but it lends colour to a conversation.

[sundog]

42. Olde

--

[yvr girl]

44. I love the 'ou' words

Colour, honour, valour etc.

[SarahB]

45. Flavour or shoppe!

[Kenneth ken]

47. "elevator"

they spell it "lift" - much cooler word and easier to spell.

But, jeeze, talk about crappy spelling; they only use two of the eight correct letters, and throw in two that shouldn't even be there!

:P

[swag]

51. aluminium

[LSdemocrat]

54. I'd have to go for this one

[dolo amber]

53. I cannot believe

there's no love for 'Programme'...

I mean really, why the extra letters? It's a perfectly cromulent word as 'program'. Silly Brits...:eyes:

:P

[sundog]

55. I have a friend in Berlin who insists on spelling it that way and, yes, I

want to yell or strangle him, but I never do (kinda diffucult to address such matters by email)... I just don't have the energy to try to explain it to him...

[Kellanved]

60. no surprise

It's "Programm" in German, adding an 'e' is a lot easier, than dropping a 'm'. Not to mention that German schools teach the British spelling.

[Spider Jerusalem]

56. British English retains more Norman French influences...

hence "programme", "colour", and "manoeuvre", along with some traces of Anglo-Saxon (the "ae" in "encyclopaedia", "haemorrhage" and so on was originally æ, or ash, one of the letters of the old English alphabet.

And the only reason American English follows different orthographical rules is that there was a "spelling reform" movement in the nineteenth century, of which Noah Webster was a part. And Webster's dictionary became the standard reference for American English.

[dolo amber]

57. Well, YAY for the spelling progressives

of the 19th century! :D :toast:

(And who asked you to be so smart anyway? :P ;))

[T_i_B]

58. There is no such thing as "US English"

We will notify Microsoft on your behalf.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

59. sat/sitting

UK: "I was sat over there".
US: "I was sitting over there".

Also "shat" is a personal favourite. "I shat where I was sat".

[LWolf]

61. Other

"favourite."

Most irritating crappily spelt British word:

"Faire."