Re: Happy Birthday to the United States (and screw the wannabes and ha
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British spellings: Flavour, Aluminium. The latter pronounced 'al-you-min-yum'
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Isn't it even worse than that, as in 'al-you-min-e-um'?
As a Canadian, I go along with most of those happily - flavour, colour, cheque, zed not zee, etc...but that aluminum thing has always driven me nuts.
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I like all the extra letters in the British spellings. They're fun.
However, saying "shhed-ule" instead of "sked-ule" just sounds dumb.
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