Hey, now. We spell just fine! Do me a FAVOR and don't mock our spelling.

To be frank, I rather like the simplification. Even you have to admit, it does suit us.

My father, who loved Americans and had many American friends, always used to say to them: "why don't you invent a language of your own, instead of murdering our's!

I'm a medical secretary, and I love the PROPER spelling of haemoglobin, foetus, gynaecology, etc. etc. - all from the original Latin and should be spelled as such!

Don't even start me on the inappropriate use of the z!!

Serialisation - NOT with a Z!
Specialisation - NOT with a Z!

And Z is pronounced Zed, not Zee!!!!

Am I being racist???:!!!!

The spelling differences we'll never get over. Like I said, I do enjoy your spelling, but I enjoy not having to write like that at the same time. We did mock that people from the U.K. barely have any use for the letter Z since it is mostly replaced with an S in many words.

I spell very well, for they tell me that if I spelled like you, many of my words would get an X on my test papers. Wrong here, right there. Butchered English it is to you, but to me it's just English.

Ah, but it is OUR language, we invented it, you guys should conform! But you don't ... why? Because you are more arsey than us Brits, you think outside of the box. We are very germanic still, very anal, too keen to follow the rules and the regulations! What I love about you Americans is your Gung Ho! attitude, your suck it and see attitude. George Bush Junior is a good example of this right after 9/11 ... I was not a fan of Dubya, but he was mesmeric in his reaction and handling to and of 9/11.

His father was a wet fart IMO ... he had the chance to get Saddam years before the first Gulf War and he bottled out. Dubya I don't think would have done.

Am I forgiven??

Haha. I doubt old W had any fans outside the U.S. as he barely had any here. As for the English, we have dubbed our bastardized version as American English around people from the UK as we realize our spelling tends to annoy you guys, but at the same time we can't bear to spell like that.

I respect true English and did enjoy British literature in school. Just another one of the differences between us and you. IMO, not a major difference.

For Gnasher. Our local medical practice has started using the spelling 'sulfate' on prescriptions. As an ex pharmacy tech., (in a former life), this really grates on my educational nerve. Surely the 'ph' spelling has been established for so much longer, it should be the standard form.

Yes it should!! I flatly refuse to spell medical words in any other way but the Latin, from whence most of them came.

I will NEVER succombe!!

Myra: hate to point this out, but you spelled bastardised and realised wrong ... or was it done on purpose just to annoy because you know it teases!!!

I spelled them right according to American English, but yeah totally wrong otherwise. Curse my American-is-um-isum? Excuse my spelling. Gosh this is way of topic and I am getting a grand giggle. BTW, I spell succumb like this. Oh, gosh let me stop. On some medicine bottles, you'll see the word sulphur... but it's always sulfate.

Well it jolly well shouldn't be!

Glad you are all enjoying the program

Re spelling - I think it is fine to use the localised spelling of the intended recipient so if I am emailing an American who isn't quite as close as a friend, I will try to use their spelling wherever possible.