you canadians...

how do you know which words have 'ou' instead of just 'o'? or do all of the words that have just the 'o' in the u.s. have the 'ou' in canada?

like colours, favourites...

would 'genious' be spelled like that or is there no 'o'? thats always the one that confyooses me.

 

hahaha i've wondered the same


counselours?

 

i think it is just on the "-or" sound, like in colour, honour neighbour and such

its cause we stayed British instead of suceeding from the Empire

 

pritty much then there are words like Centre and such.. i dono if that applys to all of canada or all of the province i live in.. i dono We have godo food tho.. randomness

 

oo, and we say "luf-ten-ant" instead of "loo-ten-ant"

 

AHahha.. we don't say luftenant..

more..loutenant.

hahaha

No good food?!

ahha ok well.. yeah... we have poutine though.

 

and yeah, we pretty much throw the U in all the words you just have an O with.. for "or" like burby said. genius. we spell it the same.

i prefer our spelling to yours

 

I prefer your spelling to the U.S.'s.

i dont like to say "our's".. i dont consider myself an American.

 

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i am... oh wait i'm 'offline'

 

I don't know, i guess we just memorized it. Thats how we were taught, and it just is.

 

I hear ppl say "left-ten-ante" a lot. I don't say it that way tho.

 

gosh, you look mighty angry...

 

You are right.. my Cousin is in the army and he is a 2nd Lieutenant and in Canada we say leftenant not the way it is spelt lieutenant..

 

MEG!!! luf-ten-ant is the CORRECT way!!! and its way more fun

oh, and doughnut in Canada has all the letters in it

i consider myself an america...Same With Mexicans [they are americans too] and Brazilians, and Peruvians

 

well then, i'm not a united statesan. :H.

 

it kinda bugs me now when i hear "america" used as a country...America was acctually i think either in the Carribean or Brazil or somehitng origionally

 

San Salvador, originally.

 

ahaha
aluminum
aluminium

i rather aluminum..







is my mom listening to new kids on the block?
wtf..

 

Yeah you just kind of learn the words as you go along, like anything.
It's just the way it goes.
I'm British, but Canadian spellings are obviously pretty similar (more so than American ones).

Not going to go down the cultural elitist route. Still think maybe 'American' should be declared a seperate language, there aree enough diffrences to make it worth the effort.
Not just the spellings, it's pronounciations too.
The American one of aluminum (sp) [ah-loo-min-um] is not even close to the British [alley-min-ee-um]. So it sounds really weird to me. Have to listen carefully and figure it out.

Oh and we say loo-ten-ant, well I do.