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Posted by whowasthatmaskedman Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:39AM
No.. Its simply considered poor spelling and bad grammar.
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Reply by MissGaga Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:40AM
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Posted by completelyinlove Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:41AM
American spelling is wrong to English rules, they miss out the letter "u" quite often and replaces the letter "s" with a "z".
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Reply by MissGaga Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:42AM
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Posted by laniferous Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:40AM
Why we ever dropped all the u's etc ill never know.
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Reply by MissGaga Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:41AM
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Reply by IsItReallyImportant Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:57AM
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Posted by PlainMeJustMe Mar 16th, 2013 at 5:45PM
I Hate The American English.
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Posted by AuthenticLady42 Nov 28th, 2012 at 8:35PM
As one educated through the British system and was taught to speak the “Queen’s English”, I had a one professor who thought I could not spell. When I showed her the dictionary I used to show the spelling of certain words, she realized I was using a British English dictionary and was simply told, "When in Rome, do like the Romans"; therefore meaning adapt my spelling and grammar accordingly. With that said, if a paper is being written for an American audience, the spelling and grammar will be written in favor of that audience. If the paper is for a British or EU national, the document will be prepared in favour of that audience so as to not to offend them or appear illiterate.
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Posted by howardnc Nov 28th, 2012 at 5:32PM
Western or American English is my favourite.
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Posted by daviesgirl Sep 22nd, 2012 at 11:08AM
I work in primary school in England and the english schools education system does not emphasise the importance of spelling or handwriting, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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Posted by blackarcher Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:53AM
Does it matter? Really, the goal is mutual understanding. Is squabbling over the lack of a few u's worth the time and effort?
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Reply by kuronekko Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:58AM
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Reply by blackarcher Sep 22nd, 2012 at 8:12AM
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Posted by BlueXian Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:46AM
There's many different dialects on English. The only thing is American English is like Chinese English (the most popular variation), which creates new words based on mispronunciation.
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Posted by IsItReallyImportant Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:45AM
Varies person to person. I used to be and know a lot of people that are UK English pedants. They would point out that you had spelled something incorrectly or perhaps placed an apostrophe in the wrong spot, used grammar inappropriately, etc, even if these things are correct in another variant of English. To be honest, the 'english' variants of adding a 'u' into words like colo[u]r lend themselves to french influences. And the American version is probably more english than the english. These days I'm like 'meh'! So long as we get what each other means, who cares?
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Posted by wayswin Sep 22nd, 2012 at 7:41AM
Petty squabbles...
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