Tyres???

[Gaiajohan]

Metres was already covered with theatres

There the Brits just stole it from the French, while the Americans stole it from the Dutch

 

[blaaah]

Are we not going to bring up the Z issue or is that too patronising?
America will take any excuse to put a Z in a word when it should be an S.
So confuzing.

 

[Gizmo517]

What are some Z words?

 

[Gaiajohan]

What are some Z words?

Organisation vs organization

 

[Stigsblkcousin]

What are some Z words?

Realize / Realise

That one tripped me out, too!

 

[Gizmo517]

See I would be completely confused with the S because we are taught that the S and Z sounds are completely different. To me the American way seems much simpler to remember. I would never pronounce realise the same way. It shouldn't have the Z sound if it has an S.

 

[blaaah]

What are some Z words?

There must be hundreds or thousands i guess, i already said patronising which is patronizing in America.
Mostly words ending in ise or ing could be Z and S swaps.

See I would be completely confused with the S because we are taught that the S and Z sounds are completely different. To me the American way seems much simpler to remember. I would never pronounce realise the same way. It shouldn't have the Z sound if it has an S.

I bet you can't believe your own eyes!

 

[Gizmo517]

One of these days someone will come up with complete language that actually makes sense lol

 

[Gaiajohan]

Finnish does make sense. The way you write it, is how you'll say it.

 

[Antonisbob]

Putting in the "Y" makes the "e" Useless! Tyrs. See.. it still makes the proper sound! I spell it with "I" though.

 

[JediRage]

I've seen first hand how ignorant some Americans are about this tyre/tire issue. While we're at it, please people, it's not 'should of' it's 'should have', American or UK English.

 

[Stigsblkcousin]

Question: Have any of you Euro cats ever talked to anyone from New Orleans, Louisiana?

I bet your faces would be priceless.

 

[THEALB10N]

Also "couldn't care less", not "could care less".

Here's a light-hearted video explaining the difference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw

It's brilliant

 

[blaaah]

The differences in spelling are dwarfed by the differences in pronunciation.
I look at Dictionary.com and it gives the wrong pronunciations for words, it's like a dialect of English. In the UK we have many dialects with the same words said in many different ways, but there is only one correct way (there might be more than one correct pronunciation of the word but various dialects don't get a look in). I wonder how America chooses which the correct way is as there must be quite a few different dialects there.

news‧pa‧per [nooz-pey-per]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/newspaper
This is what i might expect to hear on an American movie, but didnt think it would actually be correct for American language officially. In English we do not say "nooz" or "noos".

...........
@THEALB10N David Mitchell is great. I also frown where I have seen the word tid-bit written on this very GTP website in the News section.
One of the comments from that video:
"And I couldn't care less about this stupid pompous British ass."
That should say "arse".

 

[TB]

Between having nothing to do with GT5, the original question being answered and language bashing, this thread is now closed for business.