Bit of a daft question ...
#1
Bit of a daft question ...
... and not an important one but:
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
#2
Re: Bit of a daft question ...
Originally Posted by SunshineGirl
... and not an important one but:
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Once though I had Oz spellcheck on, and it still spelt the word(forgotten which) the American way, and I knew it wasn't. So look out with spell check.
Oh, that was a word with 'z'. I think 'organisation'.
#3
Re: Bit of a daft question ...
Originally Posted by Simone
No. Definetly not generally anyway.
Once though I had Oz spellcheck on, and it still spelt the word(forgotten which) the American way, and I knew it wasn't. So look out with spell check.
Oh, that was a word with 'z'. I think 'organisation'.
Once though I had Oz spellcheck on, and it still spelt the word(forgotten which) the American way, and I knew it wasn't. So look out with spell check.
Oh, that was a word with 'z'. I think 'organisation'.
;-)
fafa
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Re: Bit of a daft question ...
Originally Posted by swissfabs
Yeah, MS Word has "z" instead of "s" sometimes... bloody yanks ;-) but hey Bill Gates is not an Aussie, what can we do!
;-)
fafa
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fafa
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Re: Bit of a daft question ...
Originally Posted by SunshineGirl
... and not an important one but:
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
The most popular answer seemed to be that they used to use English spelling way-back (30-ish years or so) . Then the eductaion departments tried to loosen the English leasons with a kind of 'spell it as it sounds' attitude - which led to an increased amount of US spelling. Lately some schools are encouraging a 'back to basics' traditional approach which means words are now being formally spelt using the UK spelling!
So the answer is 'both'.
Cheers.
AndyH
Brisbane.
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Re: Bit of a daft question ...
OZ definitely uses the English spelling way and not the American. Trust me I am an Aussie living in America
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Re: Bit of a daft question ...
There are a few other weird things to get used to - the date for example usually gets written as October 27, not October 27th, and they tend to use shortened versions of words a lot more, so you can refer to firies or ambos, whereas in the UK nicknames like that aren't really used in written English.
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Re: Bit of a daft question ...
Originally Posted by SunshineGirl
... and not an important one but:
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Do they use US spelling in Oz or not? I've seen 'Harbor' and 'Center' and just wondered ... ?
Ooops, you've probably been reading some of my posts (remnants of a US education )
UK spelling as far as I can tell, but oddly they use some US words/phrases, here such as 'muffler' (= car exhaust/silencer).
I keep meaning to go buy the Macquarie Dictionary (Oz equivalent of the UK's Oxford) so I can start getting it right!
Cheers
Anya.