Comments | aussieintn: Voice Post: I should not have been driving... and doubly not on my cell phone while driving. Please arrest me.

aussieintn

Voice Post: I should not have been driving... and doubly not on my cell phone while driving. Please arrest me.

Jul 26, 2007 21:03

Comments 9

lenken July 27 2007, 06:35:09 UTC

And most Americans spell theatre t-h-e-a-t-e-r (though I always spell it t-h-e-a-t-r-e).

It seems somewhat inconsistent that our local movie theatre calls itself Center Theatre instead of Centre Theatre (but then our town is named Grundy Center, not Grundy Centre, so that kind of makes sense).

Oh, and sober isn't spelled s-o-b-r-e because S.O.B.E.R. is an acronym for Swans Ovulate Before Ever Reproducing whereas S.O.B.R.E. stands for Smart Orangutans Buy Real Estate. People just prefer swans to orangutans.

lilyvalley July 27 2007, 23:30:46 UTC

Serious theatres have kept the "re" spelling in deference to Shakespeare.

No, I'm not making that up, either. Mind you, someone else might have made it up and told it to me, but I doubt that. Who would lie to me?

aussieintn July 28 2007, 04:26:15 UTC

Suerly you erfer to Shaekspeaer!

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aussieintn July 27 2007, 13:04:35 UTC

Yankians spell the unit of measurement M E T E R, too, and that's what I was thinking about.

aussieintn July 27 2007, 13:06:01 UTC

BTW, most USAns don't know what about the yard unit of measurement, either. Giving measurements in yards just gets them all confused.

eeeo July 27 2007, 13:28:55 UTC

Your voiceposts are always so interesting aussie.

aussieintn July 27 2007, 13:47:17 UTC

I can voicepost, so I voicepost. It puts me one up on ( ... )

lilyvalley July 27 2007, 23:31:49 UTC

Webster's shows the preferred spelling to be MITER.

Well, that just throws a monkey in your little rant there, doesn't it?

aussieintn July 28 2007, 00:11:55 UTC

Webster's is wrong.