Yes its the ENGLISH language, not American....
Which coming from an Austrlalian is quite an admission..... :-)
Murray Arundell
On 08/01/2009, at 5:54 AM, Barrie Robinson wrote:
> Larry,
>
> You miss the bit about speaking ENGLISH. The "z" and is old
> fashioned and UK moved from that after the Yanks got the French to
> help them in the war of Independence. As for the "y", the tyre was
> invented by a Brit (Scotsman Dunlop) so whatever he called it (tyre)
> is what it is !!! - All the roots of English go back hundreds if
> not thousands of years and it is difficult to get credence as a
> language shaper after only a couple of centuries.
>
> Also said with tongue in cheek....but hands over jewels as well.
>
>
> At 12:10 PM 1/7/2009, Henri Lefebvre wrote:
>> Larry,
>>
>> Is that 'unrecognizable" with a "ZEE" or a "ZED" ? :-)
>>
>> Henri
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Richard, we Yanks can't expect you Brits to pronounce words
>>> correctly when
>>> you can't spell them correctly. "Unrecognizable" has a "z" not
>> an "s". And
>>> "tire" does not have a "y" in it. I could go on, but you get the
>>> idea. It
>>> took us leaving you to get this spelling thing straightened
>>> out. ;-))
>>>
>>> Larry Daniels
>>>
>>> (With tongue firmly in cheek.)
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> Barrie
>
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