ImHere

Maybe those particular conquistadors hadnt been to Africa? I dunno, I wasnt there at the time.

anotherlimey

Ah... they probably saw them on TV.

woodsey

My 28 month old son has been picking up more and more American words, diapers, cookies, chips etc but yesterday he did something that made me so proud...Most parents on here will know that even Bob the Builder has been given an American voice so when we went to Chucky Cheeses ( ) yesterday he was delighted to see a Bob the Builder ride, I put in a token and the theme music started, low and behold it was the voice of Neil Morrissey, my son looked at me and said "oh mummy, its the proper English one.."

snowbunny

Oh the travesty of Americanising Bob.

The worst has to be changing the episode about the baby hedgehogs to *porcupines*. Alright, we don't have hedgehogs over here in Texas, anyway, but sheesh, to see a claymation hedgehog being constantly referred to as a porcupine? :scared:

Wendy has been turned into adoring-Bob Barbie instead of no-nonsense what-would-I-do-without-her sorta Scottish Wendy. Only Dizzy has managed to maintain a bit of the original charm.

aluminium aluminium.... I'll say it for you if you're in need of a fix, I'mHere.

After los conquistadores had shat themselves they probably reverted back to childhood in primal fear, even if one of them had known about crocs.

DaveC

I was gutted, erm I mean my daughter was gutted, when we found out that Thomas the Tank Engine is Americanised too, and that Ringo Starr doesn't do the commentary on the US version. The Fat Controller is referred to by his full name of Sir Topham Hat.

* Goes to Amazon.co.uk to order some British TTTE DVDs. For his daughter, not for himself.*

Pulaski

Not necessarily - if you were crippled and somebody carried you and placed you in a chair then "I was sat" would be appropriate.

londonerdanny

I think it's so cool that your daughter had the guts to stand up to her teacher. My fiancée is a total anglophile and always uses the British spellings - colour, flavour, favour etc etc and she tells me that "colour" and "color" are both correct spelling in the US - it's a shame your daughter didn't know this as she could have challenged her teacher to look it up in the dictionary him/herself !!

AdobePinon

True, but if you want people to listen to you, you must write to the audience, not to yourself. I'm happy writing 'colour' on this forum, but outside I will always use 'color' so that people focus on the subject I'm writing about, rather than how I spelled individual words.

snowbunny

I have used the British spelling since I was 15 and thinking of emigrating to Canada where for the most part the British spelling is used (especially since this was 20 years ago!).

If I am writing something professionally, or for the kids' school etc where the "alternate" spelling will raise eyebrows, I'll use American spelling.

ImHere

I tend to use random variations of spellings...mainly because I type too fast and dont use a spell checker.

ukemigrant

Reading Bill Bryson's book 'Made in America' tells me that by 1910 both words were in common use - airplane in US, aeroplane in UK. Aeroplane was first found in print in 1869.

I never liked our UK spelling anyway........