I came across this little poem and thought I would pass it along:
Ode to the Spell Checker
Eye halve a speling chequer,
It came with my pea sea,
It planely marques four my revue,
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word,
And weight four it two say,
Weather eye am rong oar write,
It shows me strate a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid,
It nose bee four two long,
And eye can make the error rite,
Its rare lee ever rong.
Eye have run this pome threw it,
I am shore your pleezed two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
My chequer tolled me sew.
And we have members who have done that. Do note, however, that American spelling and English/Canadian/Australian spelling vary with several classes of words. Roger's "honour" is perfectly correct.
Gene
Thanks Gene.
What an honourable thing to write. :-)
Well, we can now go to the theatre and see the cinema if you will come and knock me up.
Gene
I say, mate, how about if I ring you up instead? For proper English, there is this lizard on the telly...
In Hartford Ct, there was a radio announcer named Bob Steele; who for many years, would occasionally do a little poem called "Albert and the Lion". he usually did it in either a rather a "Limehouse" dialect; rather amusing, because mot many here can do it. Bob was also a real stickler for English usage, as well as spelling. Back in the nineties, this state lost this great personality to-what had to be old and satisfyingly accomplished age.
As for the "colour, honour, centre," etc, a good many people in the US were taught or have adopted usage of that spelling. Not such a bad thing.
Well, pip pip, and cheerio there, old chap.
Rich
I had a problem with someone when she asked if I wanted a spot of dick until I realized she was offering me pudding.
Terry,
I thnk that was "spotted Dick" that she offered you. :D
Gene
Hey; you guys have been watching "King Ralph" again...
Rich
Hi
Didn´t Churchill during the WW2 in a speech to the Congress say something like "We are one people, divided by a common language"?
Regards, Yukonsam
Churchill said that. I'm not exactly sure when or where.
Gene
Gene - Spotted or not, I don't want any! ;D
Terry,
I think I saw some of the receipe in an Aubry-Matirin book. When you've been six months a sea without setting foot on land whilst traveling in one of HM frigates, it might be good.
Gene
From Wikipedia:
Spotted dick is a steamed pudding, containing dried fruits, usually currants. The dessert originates in and continues to be popular in the United Kingdom, especially Scotland, where, presumably, it was originally created. Usually served either with custard or with butter and brown sugar. Spotted refers to the raisins (which resemble spots) and Dick may be a contraction/corruption of the word pudding (from the last syllable) or possibly a corruption of the word dough.[1] It is also known as spotted dog, plum duff, steamed dicky, dicky pudding, figgy dowdy, dotted lloyd, dicky widmark as well as plum bolster, Spotted Richard. and it is sometimes even called a Dickie Burton after the famous actor.
Funny thing is that in the A/B books, plum duff and figgy dowdy seem to be different dishes.
Gene
Gene;
With respect to a country that invented Haggis, I think you might have stepped a dite too far (urp!)
BTW; you never answered my question.
RIch
Rich,
That was a statement, not a question. For me the answer is "no."
Gene
Rich - Not sure what King Ralph is.
I have a fellow Marine buddy whose dad was stationed in England during WWII where he met and married a British lass and brought her to the States.
She often comes up with phrases like that just to see the reactions of us American folks.
I think the comment about two countries separated by a common langauge was first uttered by George Bernard Shaw although it sounds like something Mark Twain could have said.
A friend of Scottish ancestory returned to Scotland to visit his dad's home. He said he nearly didn't survive eating haggis but at least was consoled by a liberal application of single malt Scots whisky.
I tried (operative word is tried) steak and kidney pie once in London. Maybe it was the restaurant but I couldn't deal with it.
In Astoria, queens, home to many immigrants, there is an Egyptian restaurant whose specialty is braised lamb's hearts! No Thank You.
Changing the topic, there is a nice spread in RMC magazine about the British locomotive museum in York. I've been there, it's definitely worth the trip (by train, of course!)
When I was in the UK, I was verbally slapped on the knuckles regarding the folks north of Hadrian's Wall. The folks who live there are Scottish. They do, however, distill the finest kind of whiskey, which is Scotch.
A Scottish bartender I knew in my misspent youth adamently referred to Scotch whisky as Scot's whisky. The semantics are minor, the whisky, by any name, is, water of life!
Woody;
Check out the literature on a bottle of Scots Whiskey-I think you will find that most labels call it "Scots", and not "Scotch", which is more of a Yankee abomination than anything else.
Caber tossing, anyone?
Rich
Terry
We used to call the ex premier of our province King Ralph.
Don
King Ralph" is the name of a movie that starred Peter O'Toole, the guy who played Roseann's husband (? Goodman). The context of the story is that the aids to the king (Peter O'Toole) were to find the king's twin lookalike for him to be used as a decoy so the real king would be safe. Parts of it were funny, but the movie was, to me, a bit of a drag-perhaps might hold the fascination of a cocker spaniel.
The women were pretty good looking, though! Ahh to be the king...
..or, as the say: Once a king, always a king, but once a knight's...
Rich
Sorry! no scotch or Scot's whisky in this house. I prefer Irish whisky - Tullamore Dew - to be precise. It was once made in County Offaly and that is why it's "offaly" good.