English Please Not American

[Gregh]

I want Australian and New Zealand. If he can have English and Americans can have American I want my languages represented!

[navstar]

if the devs are american then why british spelling of nieghbours?

[Shaldimar]

Originally Posted by navstar

if the devs are american then why british spelling of nieghbours?

What we call "American" is known to be one of the hardest languages in the world to learn or to figure out Some of our own words still use the original English spelling, and some do not. Add to that the fact that within our own country, between the coasts, and the Northern and Southern borbers, people use different terms and even variations in spellings. So there is no real set rules about such things. That's the great "American" way! Or is it? You can find simular differences in these things some other countries as well.

[Darklady]

Navstart has a good point there - plus I thought a "plough" is the actual machinery used to "plow" a field? Therefore we spend our time plowing (seeing as we have no machinery) - not ploughing! If you really want to get pedantic then you really do need to check your capitals and spacing - re-reading your post would be good before actually posting!

[Cuda]

Originally Posted by Darklady

Navstart has a good point there - plus I thought a "plough" is the actual machinery used to "plow" a field?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough#cite_ref-0

In English, as in other Germanic languages, the plough was traditionally known by other names, e.g. Old English sulh, Old High German medela, geiza, or huohili, and Old Norse arðr, all presumably referring to the scratch plough.

The current word plough also comes from Germanic, but it appears relatively late (it is absent from Gothic), and is thought to be a loanword from one of the north Italic languages. In these it had different meanings: in Raetic plaumorati (Pliny), and in Latin plaustrum "wagon, cart", plōstrum, plōstellum "cart", and plōxenum, plōximum "cart box".[1][2]

The word is first attested in Germanic as Lombardic plōvum, referring to the wheeled heavy plough. From Germanic, the term was borrowed into Balto-Slavic languages giving Old Church Slavonic plugǔ and Lithuanian plúgas. Ultimately, the word is thought to derive from an ancestral PIE *blōkó, related to Armenian pelem "to dig" and Welsh bwlch "gap, notch".[3][4]

[Honey Wheat]

When all else fails I speak the universal language of pirate!

[HelenDJJD]

I just enjoy the diversity and couldn't care less how things are spelt. . Incidentally, I use the plough version of plow when it suits me. I am English and was taught to spell it the 'ough' way, back in school, many donkey's years ago and yes, we were also taught how to use punctuation, believe it or not. Maybe it's a lost art amongst young people nowadays, who can only spell in text language.
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[tooferdoc]

I'm Cajun. We need some Cajun spice here.

[missgray]

lol..maybe we could talk them into a compromise..swap neighbors for neighbours and plough for plow..

[Karla Mae]

Originally Posted by olebut

yes I may be being pedantic, but please can we have English as well as American we do not speak American in the UK for instance we spell Plough Plough not plow as you do and it annoys me that we are not able to speak our language when you have so many other languages available thank you others=wise good fun if alittle addcitive

I thought 'plough' was the apparatis, and 'plow' was the function...? You plow a field with a plough...(?) But thats really picking fly poop out of pepper. Then we have all the 'to', and too's...your, you're's and there, their and they're's !! oh my....