Extra U or Did We Leave It Out?

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:50 pm

Another thread title prompted this, but I was wondering...

The English use: humour, colour

USA Peeps use: humor, color

Are there any more????

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:18 pm

favorite and favourite................

Uh oh............I see another "word game" coming..........

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:19 pm

odour

arbour ardour armour dolour favour honour labour rigour rumour savour

candour clamour fervour flavour glamour harbour parlour saviour

clangour

They're all I can see immediately with http://www.chaucery.com/fun/crossword/

What have I missed, anyone?

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:26 pm

spot;962246 wrote: odour

arbour ardour armour dolour favour honour labour rigour rumour savour

candour clamour fervour flavour glamour harbour parlour saviour

clangour

They're all I can see immediately with http://www.chaucery.com/fun/crossword/

What have I missed, anyone?Clangour?

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:38 pm

Theater....Theatre

Check.......Cheque

Tire..........Tyre

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:39 pm

Toe-ma-toe---------Toe-may-toe

Labour

She went to hospital------------She went to the hospital

The child went missing-----------The child is lost.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:27 pm

We tried to drop Vacuum's second U, but they have a strong lobby. It's not surprising, since that's where so many of them work ... in the lobby.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:51 pm

jimbo;962357 wrote: is that coz they suck

Wow. I guess Nature's not the only one that hates a vacuum. :sneaky::D

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:58 pm

abbey;962254 wrote: Clangour?

You'd need to ask an American, I was guessing there.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:34 pm

:wah: Admit it, you dropped a clangour.

Post by **spot** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:50 pm

abbey;962451 wrote: :wah: Admit it, you dropped a clangour.

What? Oh... no, you're not getting it. A Clanger's "A mistake, esp. one that attracts attention; a social faux pas. Phr. to drop a clanger, to make such a mistake, to ‘slip up’."

A clangour's a noise... "Loud resonant ringing sound, as of a trumpet, a large bell, pieces of metal struck together, etc.; a clang. Sometimes with a and pl."

In England it can be spelled Clangor or Clangour. I don't expect the Americans use the U. I would.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:06 pm

A clanger.

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:20 am

abbey;962484 wrote: A clanger.

:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Where's their neighbour, the soup dragon?

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:44 am

I Like:

Lori....truck

Buggy...Trolley

Stroller....Pram

Que....Line

Quid....Buck

Fanny......%$#@ (Fanny is "butt" in USA)

Boot....trunk

Bonnet....Hood

PET-RAHL...gas

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:05 am

Enamor/Enamour

Don't forget program/programme and maneuver/manoeuvre

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:07 am

G-man;963095 wrote: Don't forget program/programme... ;)What's that used for in America?

Here, a programme is what's on TV, a program's what you code on a computer.

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:13 am

spot;963096 wrote: What's that used for in America?

Here, a programme is what's on TV, a program's what you code on a computer.

Works for both. Aren't all terms used for computers chiefly American? I know that in (x)HTML/CSS it's color/center...

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:20 am

G-man;963097 wrote: Works for both. Aren't all terms used for computers chiefly American? I know that in (x)HTML/CSS it's color/center...

It's specific here for those two uses. I wrote programs (as opposed to programmes) in the 1960s on UK-designed computers. We invented them over here, I thought you knew that.

Post by **spot** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:30 am

In FORTRAN IV, now I remember.

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:45 am

spot;963106 wrote: It's specific here for those two uses. I wrote programs (as opposed to programmes) in the 1960s on UK-designed computers. We invented them over here, I thought you knew that.

:wah::wah::wah:

spot;963119 wrote: In FORTRAN IV, now I remember.

I vaguely recall skimming over Fortran IV, but I admit that I am old enough to have studied Fortran 77 at university... albeit at a few years earlier than most folks would have been attending university.

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:04 pm

Programs are also the list of events at gradutaions, funerals, weddings, etc. You can also get programs at sporting events with a team roster and advertisements.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:12 pm

TheNewDG;963083 wrote: I Like:

Lori....truck

Buggy...Trolley

Stroller....Pram

Que....Line

Quid....Buck

Fanny......%$#@ (Fanny is "butt" in USA)

Boot....trunk

Bonnet....Hood

PET-RAHL...gas
ahem..........the way we spell them.

Lorry

Queue

Petrol

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:42 pm

abbey;963335 wrote: ahem..........the way we spell them.

Lorry

Queue

Petrol

"Scuse me..."

LOL! It would be bad if I were British, huh?

I also like the way you all say : Garage

GERIJ

us? GAH-RAJ