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[Bob_V]

Spelling Chequers

      Eye halve a spelling chequer
      It came with my pea sea
      It plainly marques four my revue
      Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

      Eye strike a key and type a word
      And weight four it two say
      Weather eye am wrong oar write
      It shows me strait a weigh.

      As soon as a mist ache is maid
      It nose bee fore two long
      And eye can put the error rite
      Its rare lea ever wrong.

      Eye have run this poem threw it
      I am shore your pleased to no
      Its letter perfect all the weigh
      My chequer tolled me sew.

Bob.

[CGAux26]

WAY-YELL I AINT NEVER MADE BUT WUN MISTEAK IN SPELIN EN MI LAF, AND WEN I HAD DUN IT I HAD TACKEN IN AFTRE IT, BUT IT HADD ALREDDY WENT!!

Now that we have chased that rabbit/fox all over creation, can we get back to BOATZ???

[tigertiger]

A couple of general comments

At the end of the day, an internet forum is not an English essay.
Spelling and grammar are generally regarded as not important when posting in such forums.
The grammar used when speaking is rarely 100% correct, and that is the style of most posts.  

It sadens me sometimes to see somebody put a releveant point of view (especially in a discussion), and the only rebuttal made concentrates on spelling and grammar.
As if to say, 'you are obviously an ignoramus who cannot possible contribute intelligently to this discussion because you made a spelling mistake'. This to me shows that there is perhaps no real rebuttal, and things have resorted to the equivalent of name calling.
A bit like telling Einstein that his theory of relativity would not stand up, if his work had containted spelling errors and/or poor use of grammar.

[derekwarner]

mmmmmm DickyD says.... "Just think you are great Derek, you Aussies don't even speak English"


    how may times do I need restate

Our proud Irish convict forebears were sent to OZ in the first fleet with copies of the transcripts from Ye Olde Bailey

a) when you view these transcripts...it is clear that the text is 1/16 Germanic....certainly not English as is currently offered

b) at school in OZ we were provided with a copy of "The Oxford Concise Dictionary" - Australian version
c) at school in OZ we were also provided with a copy of "Websters American World Dictionary"  - Australian version

d) the brilliance of the Australian education system in 1964 adopted the British model in metrication……….[which essentially was a good idea]

e) in 1969 I attempted applied heat II in Si during day lessons & Imperial during night lessons ---- talk about the British DINGBATS controlling the education

Later in life after Bill Gates enters the scene we find our PC defaults as

f) PC principal language = English
g) keyboard = English/American
h) principal defaults = US/UK

So all of these were small conquests…… as we from OZ are tough…we eat garlic + red ned …….Derek 

[tigertiger]

Later in life after Bill Gates enters the scene we find our PC defaults as
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f) PC principal language = English
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f) PC principal language = American English 

[derekwarner]

OK...& thanks TT.......for the correction..... I am here in Adelaide this week & relied on my memory of the principal language in Wollongong in Windows XP system as  f) PC principal language = English

Clearly you are correct with this new fangled VISTA PC....the default is .......principal language = American English  .....

When I was @ GID we saw naval vessels...gray naval vessels .....grey steel blue vessels ....yes Russian....American....NZ.......French....& all of differing "'greayie"" tones ..............+ all of the rest....I would like to think we could all laugh at the latest postings & reflect of the .........dis.....similar paint jobs .........as are our postings ......Derek  

[tigertiger]

Paintjobs like this???

Its all a grey area to me.....

[tigertiger]

Hi Derek

I wasn't trying to correct you. God forbid.
Just pointing out the irony that there is not just one English, there are many.

I don't know if he was the first to say it, but Churchill (I think) said, 'America and Britain, two nations divided by one language'.

[Hagar]

I got turned down for a job many years ago because my english was not good enough 
Being rather miffed by this, I corrected the fifteen or so spelling mistakes in the letter and sent it back to them.