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Thread ID: 69019	2006-05-19 07:53:00	Is this a USA thing - disk vs disc?	BoboTheClown (5652)	PC World Chat

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456069	2006-05-19 22:49:00	While on spelling I find rather annoying the bad spelling of so many people these days when using computers. My favourite dislikes - the confusion between to, too and two, then using i instead of I and so very often there used when it should be their. I guess being on the wrong side of 70 and having trained in an age when standards really mattered I'm just too picky these days. But please the reasons for the differences in the above words are not difficult to learn. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
456070	2006-05-19 23:16:00	Blame it on TV - nobody reads anymore. The parents blame the schools, but the fault is in the homes - keep the kids mesmerised with a screen then you don't have to waste your valuable time on the pests. Let's go back to pounds, shillings and pence while we're at it - maybe they'll learn to count as well. I've been doing a "Writing for the Web" course. There was great stress on the importance of good grammar for credibility, but the tutors' grammar was almost as bad as that of some of the younger students. One of my grandchildren's teachers offered the opinion that spelling doesn't matter. When you consider that in Shakespeare's day their was no standard spelling, maybe the prat was right.	Vallis (8886)
456071	2006-05-20 00:12:00	<rant> I am generally tolerant of people's spelling but one thing that has really been getting my goat for a while now is the growing trend of using apostrophes incorrectly before an 's' . Some examples from this forum: basic's arise's offer's spec's seem's etc, etc, ad nauseum . . . . I have no idea how this ridiculous thing started but even newspapers and junk mail adverts ("advert's" :rolleyes: ) are getting in the act and the trend appears ("appear's" :rolleyes: ) on foreign forums ("forum's" :rolleyes: ) as well . On another forum that I regularly visit there is one person who is so bad that I have had to put him on my block list in order not to read his posts . </rant>	FoxyMX (5)
456072	2006-05-20 00:21:00	OK..this is gonna get cloudy.....I can already see! American/English on left--------------------UK/English/NZ/Australia/India on right COLOR-----COLOUR (too many letters, besides it's fay (see "Buggar") BABY CARRIAGE--PRAM (prolly short for perambulator, but notice there's no "PRA-" sequence in the word perambulator...so what gives?) TRUCK--LORRY/LORREY (SP?) HOOD ----BONNET (US version of BONNET is a lady's hat) TRUNK----BOOT (BOOT in US is a tall shoe, worn by cowboys, usually not a place to keep a spare tire or a jack); may also be made of rubber, with instructions printed on the heel on how to remove "adulterants" from inside. WINDSHIELD----WINDSCREEN (what about rocks and bugs? Huh? Shield sounds more protective). TWO CENTS---TUPPENCE (OK, pretty close to the same) BROWNIE POINT---CHOCKY FISH (huh?) CHILL---LOLLY GAG (OK...a lolly is really a "lollypop" and I imagine having one (US = sucker) in the mouth might be indicative of a lout or a ne'r-do-well) but I am not sure of the "gag" part. Just give it a little longer and we is gonna get youse guys all straightened out...right?	SurferJoe46 (51)
456073	2006-05-20 00:40:00	favourites/favorites. I always saw it as our spelling. I didn't realise they had dropped the u until you pointed it out.	Greven (91)
456074	2006-05-20 00:47:00	HOOD ----BONNET (US version of BONNET is a lady's hat) TWO CENTS---TUPPENCE (OK, pretty close to the same) CHILL---LOLLY GAG (OK...a lolly is really a "lollypop" and I imagine having one (US = sucker) in the mouth might be indicative of a lout or a ne'r-do-well) but I am not sure of the "gag" part. HOOD is that thing on top of jackets and "hoodies" that goes over your head. TUPPENCE is outdated CHILL is making something cold or what you say to someone when they need to calm down (haven't heard it used in the latter sence in a while) Never heard of LOLLY GAG	Greven (91)
456075	2006-05-20 03:36:00	I've always wanted to change my IE favorites to read favourites as itniggles me intensely but I guess it's impossible or too difficult. I suppose I could change browsers at a pinch Resource Hacker can do this - it's a program designed for looking at the various resource types stored in windows executable files (including string resources - these make up the menu names), and it can replace them with other items of the same type (i.e. replacement menu text). If the program was written in Delphi it can also edit the forms. Not at all difficult to use.	Erayd (23)
456076	2006-05-20 05:16:00	One of my grandchildren's teachers offered the opinion that spelling doesn't matter. When you consider that in Shakespeare's day their was no standard spelling, maybe the prat was right. Whoops Vallis - the thing we all dread - sounding off about something then making a mistake ourselves. The above should of course read " - in Shakespeare's day there was no - "	Thomas01 (317)
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