Popeye For President!

This took me back!
Popeye was a huge favourite of my mums when we three kids were growing up. - She used to do the voices! (Pinky & Perky and Tweetie-Pie too, come to think of it!).
Thanks for the smiles anti.

Hey now, as a kid Popeye was always one of MY favorites (correctly spelled).
I used to dig the satire, and the fact that when Popeye goes off mumbling, he's actually saying something.

Yes, there is another funnies cartoon that has a character in the bottom of the window that will have a caption that responds to the primary cartoon. I forget its name. But the Pentagon actually spent money studying the "sub cartoon."

Favourite, favourite, favourite! Don't make me tell you again!

OK, let's side track and examine the English here.


The pronunciation of the "OU" in the word through is like the OO in Moon.

The Pronunciation of the "O" in the word slope is like the word Oh.



So, do we say Fav OO rite, or do we say Fav OH rite?



Uppity English. Just because you invented the language...



Actually around here the part in question isn't even enunciated.
The word is spoken using only the first and last syllables.

Fav-rit

As in, Hassling Karen is one of my most FavRit things to do!

Heard of the "Soup Nazi?" Well, now there is the "Spelling Nazi."

Since when has 'ou' been pronounced 'oo'??? When followed by an 'r' (an 'r' not a 'r'!) it is pronounce 'or' otherwise it is pronounced 'aw' or 'ow'.

Dear me, it seems I really do have to spell it out!

But, actually, I don't enunciate that part of the word myself. I pronounce the word 'fave-ret', as in 'my fave-ret thing to do today is teach Sky of Mind how to use the English language properly! Poor boy needs help!

I use the spell checker add on for Explorer.


The richest man on earth says it's spelled this way.
Must be true then eh?

Consider for a moment that there are roughly 50 million Brits, and roughly 300 million Americans.
Popular concensus then must be that the word(s) is spelled with just the O.


We do prefer the popular vote, don't we?





Edit to add.....


Include the populations of the rest of the British empire.

Canada roughly 30 million
Australia roughly 20 million



You're still out voted roughly 3 to 1

You are the Adolf Hitler of spelling. Your grammatic regimen is so strict, no errors get past you, and no one with bad grammar talks to you for very long. If anyone doesn't use at least relatively good grammar, they don't have a chance with you. (By the way, there were eight intentional spelling errors, if you found more, check on them to be sure they are errors and let me know. I don't want to be a hypocrite.)

according to the all knowing spell checker, there were no spelling errors.

I use firefox which provides a choice of either English or American spell-checkers.
You speak American, whereas I speak English - the mother of your American. Your confusion is understandable, however. Naturally, you're jealous.



Absolutely NOT! I am an English elitist!
Please try to show a little respect to your mother-tongue, and to those of us who use it properly.

Sorry you elitist,

I'm a rebel!

Does this look like the post of a Rebel or a conformist to you?
You side with the majority and call it rebellion? Hah! I fart in you general direction!



But if you are as pretty as James Dean, I may be forced to reconsider!

There is no rule which states the rebellion cannot be the majority.
Consider for example, your empire and India?

Oh, my empire is it pretty boy?

But you missed the more obvious come-back - That when America, Canada, etc, changed the spelling of certain words, it was probably an act of rebellion against the British (English really - just ask BillCo) empire.
I mean, really Sky, must I lead you through this conversation by the nose!

clearly you will try. But as usual you'll not quite have what it takes.


Btw. Odds are that I look way better than the rebel Guru Mr Dean.
(after all, he's been dead a very long time!)

You win! For a crap speller you can be quite funny when you put your mind to it.
(But then, it is getting later here.. so I may just change my mind in the cold light of tomorrow.)

And I humbly acknowledge England-- the Mother of Shakespeare. I am reading George Orwell's essays, articles, and letters ( Vol. 1 from 1920 to 1940) just to study his style to remove the fog from my own writing. But you English sure use some funny words! The "Spike" for example.

I would strongly and quite humbly suggest you read this book as well. (It's also free)

Letters from the Earth, By Mark Twain

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainlfe.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=njQL3Vbnw...umbnail#PPP1,M1

I am the one that is not worthy!


Though, it's still fun to play.

Hey, he's not English! He's a Yankee! And he talks bad English all the time! I read in a book about that rascal Tom Swayer. If bad spellers go to hell, well, Tom is go'in right down there with'em ...first in line!

Aw shucks! Twernt nuthin. Why I been bad talkin since I was jes a lil sucker.
Now I'm gettin kinda old so I spect I'll jes keep on a talkin this way til I die!

I already know how to use bad English and I already know how to cuss! I don't need no Tom Sawyer to show me how to that.

What's the context 'Spike' is being used in Anti, because, in and of itself, it's a word as good as any other. Allow me to demonstrate - "Bollocks! I've just impaled my foot on this spike sticking out of the ground!' See?



Thanks, I will! Gadzooks! (Hi Zooks!) once posed an exert from one of Twain's works, and it's the only Twain I've ever read... Took me a couple of passes of the first paragraph to get into the language, but I enjoyed it after that.




Speaking as one who grew up on a council housing estate (project?) in darkest Liverpool, may I just point out that bad English is my fiat language!



Aw! Ya big softy!

Doesn't Canada spell it the same way we do?

That depends on how english the area is. Besides, the Frenchies have a large part of the ice box.

Speaking of language, I've noticed comedians and impressionists are having a hard time making McCain's SouthWEST accent not sound like a Southern accent. Jerks, get it right. Just because we sound silly doesn't mean they shouldn't try.