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Originally Posted by testpie
If you're imply we (the English) mis-spell it, because we use the correct form "humour", then you are wrong. English is our language dammit - Americans always oversimplify words for some inane reason.
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Now... are you accusing me of corrupting the Queen's English testpie?
On the contrary, the 4.5 - 5% of the world's population who don't have the abilty to spell correctly are the followers of a cult leader called Webster. He could never spell correctly either.
Despite that, he actually wrote a dictionary which goes to show, anything is possible in America and is accepted at face value.
Obviously there are drawbacks to accepting everything at face value. Even Webster had is little joke over the varying interpretations of "fanny"
PS... And BTW, "we" got it right in that there is no such thing as "ass", - a kinda girly boy expression. The proper word is "arse"
