Aussies and 1UZ

[Zuffen]

You occasionally hear them call "zed" cars in Australia.

I's quite amazing how the Atlantic Ocean can separate the Queens English from the tortured version in the States.

The spelling may be intertesting but the pronunciation is worse.

Let's look at a few:
* either
* neither
* Aluminium
* the letter "Z" had to throw that in.
* Tomato
* Subaru
* Carburetor or carbureter (both are correct English spelling)
* Vermouth

I could go on all day but enough said.

One question how do American school kids pass English exams?

 

[The Flea]

One question how do American school kids pass English exams?

They don't! Have you ever seen the California Basic Education Skills Test? It's required for California teachers. What a joke.

 

[brawn4x4]

I call it the Oozie, as in Arnie's OOOOOzie 9mm. SOunds good and less of a mouthful thean 1 you zed ef ee!

 

[Pro]

hahaha LOL @ aluminium.

no offence, but it's amazing how a whole country can miss that little "i" after the "n" and still not pronounce it as it's spelt - it's not silent like the "k" in "knife" or anything!

 

[Damien]

You must admit that a lot of the US spelling is very pragmatic compared to some horribly contrived spelling you get in proper english like "catalogue" - what's with the ue at the end??

 

[Dreamkiller]

Thing i hate is whenever you load some software it asks for the language type.
We have to choose "US english".

 

[Zuffen]

No we select English - Australian.

I won't allow my staff have US English settings on their computers.That way when they use spell check it's correct.

I see a lot of Word documents emailed to me from Aussie companies with US settings.