Maltaran Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Aluminium is the officially accepted spelling by the international chemistry union, though. It was a compromise so the Americans could use their spelling of sulphur (that being sulfur). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 If Britishisms are invading US English, will we be looking at the US switching to the correct spelling of grey, labour, colour, theatre, centre, etc?I've always spelled it "theatre" but then again, most people who work in them do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I've always used "grey." I don't know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O' Bones Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Burglarized.Take that you bastards! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 For the sake of consistency, we should probably bring the rest of our crime-words into line. Henceforth, a robber "robbifies", a murderer "murderizes" and a thief "thieverates". The extra syllables are a solemn indication of the severity of these acts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O' Bones Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 If they are also in the OED, then fair play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 If they are also in the OED, then fair play.Are you sure the OED word-legitimacy test is one you want to stand by? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord O' Bones Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Are you sure the OED word-legitimacy test is one you want to stand by? ;)I've given up on decimate. As well as moot. Literally though, I will likely cling to with my last breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I've always used "grey." I don't know why.Me too, for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Color is spelled without the U in latin. The U comes from Old French. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mlle. Zabzie Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Grey has always seemed, well, greyer to me (but, to be fair, in my mind it's a sort of yellow grey. More purple grays are gray. So yes, I use both. And yes, it's to connote a distinction in my mind that NO ONE ELSE in the world gets. I don't care. :P). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSumm Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hold on.......what's this about the word 'brilliant'? What did that mean before, just the 'bright light' definition? Never knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I got into the habit of regularly using "bloody" at least 15 years ago, either from Brit cop dramas or Harry Potter (is it used in HP?), but started using "brilliant" from HP for sure. Before HP I used brilliant sarcastically, but changed my use to add a positive spin to it post HP.For some reason my mother always found the word bloody to be very offensive (saw too much during WW II I think) but she picked up the word "bugger" from me, and I had to gently explain that if she found bloody offensive she would definitely find bugger offensive. :lol: She was great, she was. She was apalled, laughed, and tried to stop using it but it was a word she liked to would still use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillio Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I got into the habit of regularly using "bloody" at least 15 years ago, either from Brit cop dramas or Harry Potter (is it used in HP?), but started using "brilliant" from HP for sure. Before HP I used brilliant sarcastically, but changed my use to add a positive spin to it post HP.For some reason my mother always found the word bloody to be very offensive (saw too much during WW II I think) but she picked up the word "bugger" from me, and I had to gently explain that if she found bloody offensive she would definitely find bugger offensive. :lol: She was great, she was. She was apalled, laughed, and tried to stop using it but it was a word she liked to would still use it.you'll like this then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 This seemed to be as good a thread as any in which to insert this question: How big of a scandal is the Jimmy Savile story over there across the pond? Is the fact that he's dead and gone sort of taking it off the radar of the typical Brit? (Link for folks who may not have heard of this:) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9627219/Jimmy-Savile-scandal-BBCs-George-Entwistle-faces-MPs-as-it-happened.htmlWe're hearing about it over here on NPR and I was curious as to how big a splash it was making there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I'm not sure whether "shit-storm" is an American-ism or a British-ism. (Had to tie it into this thread somehow.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lummel Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 This seemed to be as good a thread as any in which to insert this question: How big of a scandal is the Jimmy Savile story over there across the pond? Is the fact that he's dead and gone sort of taking it off the radar of the typical Brit? (Link for folks who may not have heard of this:) http://www.telegraph...t-happened.html...It's massive. And the scandal keeps getting bigger.It's horrific because the man was a mainstay of primetime entertainment for so long all of which seems to be tied into the abuse. Now it turns out that coach loads of vulnerable girls were brought in from special schools and the like and taken back stage for some of his shows. So the entire fabric of decades of light entertainment shows was made, potentially, into a vehicle for organised child abuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fragile Bird Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Holy shit. This was a BBC guy, was it? Forty years ago? Sounds like a good topic for a thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lummel Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 not really a good topic.It's not clear when it all ended. The man was involved in volunteer work at hospitals and special units. He's been linked to an infamous set of allegations around Haut de la Garenne in Guernsey too. In some of the institutions (apart from the BBC) he was involved with he was given his own office, bedroom, sets of keys etc which obviously starts to raise all kinds of wider issues. The police are working on preparing a case - so clearly there are people still alive who are considered to be potentially criminally culpable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCracken Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I was told by a friend there are suspicions that Edward Heath may have been involved. Now that would be a HUGE story! Anyone else heard about these rumors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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