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I tend to have people complaining to me about certain grammar i use, i would like to get some spelling issues across.

Canada | American

Behaviour | Behavior
Colour | Color

=P

~ Kyle
Alatar wrote:
I tend to have people complaining to me about certain grammar i use, i would like to get some spelling issues across.

Canada | American

Behaviour | Behavior
Colour | Color

And this has what to do with grammar?

Lummox JR
In response to Lummox JR
It has to do with how i spell colour, and behaviour, people expect me to spell it the american style.
Not goona happen

~ Kyle
In response to Alatar
Alatar wrote:
It has to do with how i spell colour, and behaviour, people expect me to spell it the american style.
Not goona happen

I repeat: And that has what to do with grammar?

Lummox JR
Alatar wrote:
I tend to have people complaining to me about certain grammar i use, i would like to get some spelling issues across.

Canada | American

Behaviour | Behavior
Colour | Color

=P

~ Kyle

Wrong     |  Right

Behaviour |  Behavior
Colour    |  Color


:P
Grammar refers to the system of rules by which words are formed and put together to make sentences (so says Encarta!), which means your spelling has nothing to do with your grammar. :o)
In response to Foomer
Besides:

"> Not goona happen" - you cannot convince me that this is a Canadian way of saying 'gonna' - which is questionable grammer usage of 'going to' anyway...

=p
In response to Alatar
Alatar wrote:
It has to do with how i spell colour, and behaviour, people expect me to spell it the american style.
Not goona happen

~ Kyle

It has to do with how <font color=red>I</font> spell colour, and behaviour<font color=red>. P</font>eople expect me to spell <font color=red>them using</font> the <font color=red>A</font>merican style.

Your spelling was fine -- except for "goona," of course.
Alatar wrote:
I tend to have people complaining to me about certain grammar i use, i would like to get some spelling issues across.

Canada | American

Excuse me, but isn't Canada in America? You probably meant the USA.
In response to Skysaw
North America, to be exact. America really isn't a place, it's the Americas. (INSTA REPLY!)
In response to Garthor
Garthor wrote:
North America, to be exact. America really isn't a place, it's the Americas. (INSTA REPLY!)

America and The Americas are the same place. The latter simply adds in the implied "hey, I'm also including South and Central America, ya know!"
In response to Skysaw
Well bah to you.
In response to Skysaw
I disagree -- America refers to the USA, not to North America. Otherwise, Canadians would be referred to as Americans as well, and that just doesn't happen.

AMERICA != NORTH_AMERICA

NORTH_AMERICA == NORTH_AMERICA

AMERICAS == NORTH_AMERICA & SOUTH_AMERICA


Just because you call yourselves the United States of America doesn't mean that the landmass you're on suddenly becomes named "America" -- it means that the land you own becomes American soil.

I'm pretty sure we had a similar debate to this one before.
Dun forget!

US/Canada
Armor /Armour
In response to Skysaw
yes canada is part of america too, you dont call mexicans americans, but they are as much as anyone living in the USA :P