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Eddie-S

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Well, I am glad it's not just me. Two of my favourite rants below.. God damn it

 

'American is NOT a language. It is a bastardisation of English, and to suggest phonetic spelling is better, then why do they not have their own dictionaries to illustrate EVERY word in phonetic American.?'

 

'There is no such thing as 'American English'. There is English. And there are mistakes.'

 

 

Maybe I can get some sleep tonight now

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I do! I'm on a mission to civilise.

 

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One of my favourite shows, but it over uses that!

 

One of my favourite TV shows and only 3 more weeks to find out what happens to Mike. I must say I've never noticed how often they use the term goddamn though haha...

 

I know american sayings are bad but we are equally as bad nowadays lets look at some very commonly used nonsense that Brits have 'made up'

 

REEM, BAE & many I can't even bring myself to say :taped:

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One of my favourite TV shows and only 3 more weeks to find out what happens to Mike. I must say I've never noticed how often they use the term goddamn though haha...

 

I know american sayings are bad but we are equally as bad nowadays lets look at some very commonly used nonsense that Brits have 'made up'

 

REEM, BAE & many I can't even bring myself to say :taped:

 

Isn't BAE American made

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What does BAE mean? I thought you meant British Aerospace at first. :)

 

"Bae," Urban Dictionary says, is an acronym that stands for "before anyone else," or a shortened version of baby or babe, another word for sweetie, and, mostly unrelated, poop in Danish

 

It is more commonly and annoyingly used for baby/babe :wtf: It was also used by Pharrell Williams and I think Miley Cyres in their latest tracks too.

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Don't disagree with whats been said but not many people know that originally aluminium was aluminum! It was Humphry Davy that discovered the metal and originally called it Alumina but changed this to Aluminum by the time he published his work.

 

Charles Hall was dominant in the production of Aluminum and changed its name to Aluminium on all his patents, and the name stuck!

 

So this is one where the Americans are technically right and we are wrong. Makes a change!

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Don't disagree with whats been said but not many people know that originally aluminium was aluminum! It was Humphry Davy that discovered the metal and originally called it Alumina but changed this to Aluminum by the time he published his work.

 

Charles Hall was dominant in the production of Aluminum and changed its name to Aluminium on all his patents, and the name stuck!

 

So this is one where the Americans are technically right and we are wrong. Makes a change!

 

Nice random/pointless knowledge there.

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