Canada...their misuse of the letter 'U'..and milk!

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Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 12:56 pm

I'm interested, please tell me more.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:47 pm

Proper English Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:28 pm

Dya Reyarunen-Downmeleg wrote:

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If you speak English then at least spell correctly. One of my relatives is a a teacher in Toronto and she'd definately put you on the 'naughty step' for that.

Yes. This kind of behaviour is not to be tolerated.

Dropping of the u's was the result of the efforts of Noah Webster, America's famous persnickity, anal-retentive orthography scold. Fortunately, he didn't get everything he wanted. Click here to see what could have been.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Dya Reyarunen-Downmeleg wrote:

This kind of behaviour is not to be tolerated.

I just noticed, even a lad can spell behavior correctly, see my sig line. But you are still my favo(u)rite Canadian.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:42 am

Esox lucius wrote:

If you speak English then at least spell correctly. One of my relatives is a a teacher in Toronto and she'd definately put you on the 'naughty step' for that.

If favourite and colour are spelled favorite and color, why aren't "naughty" and "could" spelled "naghty" and "cold"?

(As I wrote in The Single Sentence Random Story:
Fiona spied the habitues form up in ranks of for* and dip their cocktail swords in a mixture of flor* and sor* milk for maximum effect.
*Just using US spelling conventions for four, flour and sour... you don't mind?)

BTW - would (not wold) your (not yor) teacher relative put you on the naughty (not naghty) step for spelling "definitely" incorrectly?

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:16 am

There has been a discussion regarding the ou´s. But this propose that we rather drop the o rather than the u which seem sensible to me.

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English: The Official Language

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German (which was the other possibility). As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English."

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be> replaced with "f." This will make words like fotograf 20 per cent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, alwil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the fourth yer peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no> mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. Zen ve vil rul ze world!!

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 2:09 pm

While not a valid argument for the Metric system, it does lack fractions.

I dislike fractions.

I turn them to decimals.

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^ Funny. I was at a local hardware store this morning having something cut to order. The opening was 29 7/8 inches and I needed a 1/2" cut off so I had 1/4" play on both sides.

The kid looked flummoxed. I said 29 7/8" minus 1/2" is 29 3/8" The kid was simply amazed that I did that in my head. I tried to explain to him that 1/2=4/8 and 7/8-4/8=3/8. His head was about to explode.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:48 pm

^

Yastreb - Thatt wuz juste a tiping errah Wink

, and I am glad to see that you are on the ball in such matters.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 5:26 pm

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The kid looked flummoxed. I said 29 7/8" minus 1/2" is 29 3/8" The kid was simply amazed that I did that in my head. I tried to explain to him that 1/2=4/8 and 7/8-4/8=3/8. His head was about to explode.

As the (American) football player Joe Theismann said, "Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."

I think the same probably holds true in the hardware game.

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[quote]Does the Montreal Gazette have no proof reading staff,eh?
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This theft of sweet sirop is no small deal [/quote/]

It is spelled "syrup" throughout the article save the above phrase.

"Sirop" is French for syrup. Here we have actually nearly forgotten some English words for certain things

And I agree with PF about this metric nonsense. I just never got the hang of it.

Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:50 pm

Forwarded message:

'How on Earth can a British country like Canada allow the foreign mispronunciation of the word 'Sirop' instead of the Anglo Saxon 'Syrup'. Bloody Hell, we let them keep Quebec with their cheesey chips and basic toilet facilities and poofy winter fashions, now they are trying to infiltrate the media, and also they can stick their 'metres' up their ar...
Admiral S.S Spratbanger RN (retired)'

I did abridge the message not to offend the Mods.

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:21 pm

CNN needs new proof-readers as well...http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/cnn-covers-winnipeg-fire-double-trouble-spelling-city-153234322.html

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:17 am

You Canuks can help settle an argument - we quite like the vanilla flavoured Coffee Mate that we brought back from Canada, that you can't get here. A freind recently went over to visit her brother, and brought us back another jar.

I reckon that powdered creamer is big over there because its a lot easier to be 1000 miles away from the nearest cow than in the UK, where that would be impossible. Hayley thinks this is rubbish, and that fresh milk would be available everywhere in Canada.

Can you get fresh milk everywhere? How far away is your nearest cow, roughly?

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:33 am

And here I thought this thread was about Mr. Abuutman, the Canadian Prime Minister!

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Roycropper wrote:

Can you get fresh milk everywhere? How far away is your nearest cow, roughly?

Wisconsin is about a stones throw away and they have enough dairy cows to fill the North Atlantic.

This answer is from a nonCan, but I'm sure a real Canuk will testify. They also have a large dairy industry up there.

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vanilla flavoured Coffee Mate

Is there actually any real dairy product or vanilla in that stuff? I've had it and it's nothing compared to real cream.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:22 pm

I am afraid proofreading has gone the way of the proper use of English. Of course, before one can proofread, one must be able to spell correctly.

I chuckle when I see the "caption" lines on t.v. and all the typos and misspellings.

When I was an AT&T Relay Operator for the hearing impaired we had to type what we heard in "real" time with no typos and spelling must be correct and had to be accurate as to what the speaking person was saying, including adding such things as <yelling>, <crying>, inter alia.

Sadly such skills are almost non-existent.

Dya Reyarunen-Downmeleg wrote:

CNN needs new proof-readers as well...http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/cnn-covers-winnipeg-fire-double-trouble-spelling-city-153234322.html

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:37 pm

Does that mean it is spelled Tim Hourtons?

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:12 pm

Back to what's important - my Canadian powdered milk argument with the wife!

I cant believe the Northern half of Canada can have cows, as only ice cream would come out of them.

When I watched Ice Road Truckers, and remote places got their supplies for the whole winter, I dont suppose that there was fresh milk. I didnt see a whole lot of pasture in Alaska, either, and the place we stayed at only had creamer.

I took the liberty of modding the title again - no point in having buttons if I can't press them! Smile

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:24 pm

@Roycropper

Not a big demand for much of anything in northern Canada.

75% of the Canadian population lives within 90 miles of the US border.

Since you mentioned Ice Road Truckers, I have to comment.

I was in Paris this summer and saw that show on French TV. The show was in English, but they had dubbed French (but you could still hear the original English). Then they had someone speaking Spanish, which the original show translated to English then was in turn translated to French....I had to change the channel before my head exploded.

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