Originally Posted By: Papa Bear
It bugs me how the Americans keep misspelling cheque, draught, harbour, favour, and they keep saying "ZEE" as the last letter of the alphabet instead of "ZED" ....... heathens.
As someone who works for an American company, I know exactly what you mean.
I actually got sent a nasty e-mail asking me if I had spell check on my computer because I kept spelling things with a "U" in the word where there shouldn't be one. (Colour, Labour, Cheque etc.)
I replied in my e-mail about the slight differences in our version of the english language and that I had "Spell-Cheque" and not "Spell Check"
She didn't get it and got her nickers in a knot and said "Well this is America so speak American" (I'm in Canada, and speak english and I wasn't aware that American was a language although I quickly learned it is)
To this day I'm still laughing at that one for so many reasons!
I never did give in to her request to "speak American" as she has no authority over me and doesn't even work under the same boss as me so I could care less. Plus, after she decided to take a snooty attitude, I gotta mess with her now!
