Hi there folks,
Just a little bit of advice.

When you post a new thread, please make sure that the thread title is spelt correctly, before you hit the "submit" button.
Only the Original post thread title can be edited, but the rest of the posts in the thread keep their original spelling.

No biggie really, I'm not going to single anyone out, because, I'm sure we've all done this at least once here, but it is something to watch.

Cheers,
Mike.

Thanks for the reminder to the Members to remind this one.

Merci,Marc

{ P.S. I make this sticky so it will stay the top }

Not sure spelling or grammar is terribly important in the context of this forum, but we all do our best, I'm sure. We usually get the message, whatever the standard of our prose.

Now, listen to some of Sir Stanley Unwin's English. That really is a challenge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGo9MAqJRvo

It could be a lot worse...

check out www.engrish.com

Sure could! Heres the result of misplaced 'o' s and 'e' s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNg7XrkteII

Alan

...and speaking of 'o's, be careful when buying them or a 13 Amp BS 1363 plug in the UK, especially in an old-fashioned hardware store like this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

It's a funny language, is English.

Alan

Thats why I use the Firefox browser. It has a great spell check feature. You can even add trade names to the dictionary so you will not get a error on words like "wirenut".

Mike, Just an FYI Spelt is not a word. Spelled would be correct. Normally I would not care, just the nature of the post and all.LOL

Ob

Well, it IS, it just isn't the past tense of "spell".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt

Obsaleet and NJ Wirenut,
I guess the Oxford English Dictionary would clear things up

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/spelt?view=uk

Either "spelt" or "spelled" is correct.

Wikipedia isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Wikipedia isn't all it's cract up to be either.
Spelt is a sort of short-straw wheat they grew in the bronze age, but it's also a proper alternative to spelled. As is 'learnt' a form of learned. Being pedantic, there would originally have been an apostrophe, [spel't, learn't] for the origin is similar to [ain't = is not it], a shortening of a word or phrase, with the loss of the words is / it.

And if you understand what is said, it's English, Gor Blimey! [God blind me].

Alan you are exactly right. Just to be sure I checked with my SIS who is a 7th grade English teacher. She said"So while they are used in Britain, I think they would be frowned upon here if we used them in every day speech".
The they she is refering to is "dived". So since we do have friends on this site from all over, I guess it is Ok to use:)At least we learned a litle English.


Ob

I spent all my pay on beer, and built up quite a tab too. I dreamt my wife would have slept as I crept home skint. She wasn't. As I felt for my keys, she leant out of the window and dealt me a bucket of water!