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

The English use: humour, colour

USA Peeps use: humor, color

Are there any more????

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



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

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?

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?

Theater....Theatre

Check.......Cheque

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

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

Labour

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

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

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.

jimbo;962357 wrote: is that coz they suck
Wow. I guess Nature's not the only one that hates a vacuum. :sneaky::D

abbey;962254 wrote: Clangour?


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

:wah: Admit it, you dropped a clangour.

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.

A clanger.

abbey;962484 wrote: A clanger.




:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Where's their neighbour, the soup dragon?

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

Enamor/Enamour

Don't forget program/programme and maneuver/manoeuvre

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.

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...

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.

In FORTRAN IV, now I remember.

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.

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.

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

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