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Do get with the Program or Programme?

  • 10-06-2012 9:43am
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    Color or colourful? Hear any rumors or are you a rumourmonger?

    Do You Spell Like an American? 2 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 2 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    American or Proper English?


  • #3
    UserName 217
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭UserName 217


    Only in Microsoft Word because its set to American (keep meaning to change it).


  • #4
    trad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭trad


    The programme include me


  • #5
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I thought one spelling was the noun and the other was the verb. I've always been confused about this one.


  • #6
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    whirlpool wrote: »
    I thought one spelling was the noun and the other was the verb. I've always been confused about this one.

    http://www.dailywritingtips.com/get-with-the-programme/

    both are valid english words


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  • #7
    MisterEpicurus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 588 ✭✭✭MisterEpicurus


    mike65 wrote: »
    Color or colourful? Hear any rumors or are you a rumourmonger?

    I thought it was colour and color...


  • #8
    Pushtrak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭Pushtrak


    Get with the prog rock.


  • #9
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Do You Spell Like an American?
    No.
    I'm not in America nor American.
    I have no reason to willingly adopt their ways nor want to.


  • #10
    CodyJarrett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 307 ✭✭CodyJarrett


    Biggins wrote: »
    No.
    I'm not in America nor American.
    I have no reason to willingly adopt their ways nor want to.

    That's not what you said when you were after your Green Card.

    Crockett and Tubbs would be so disappointed.


  • #11
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    Feck the yanks and their awful tacky mass manufactured culture


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  • #12
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Awesome

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #13
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Awesome

    Bloody hate this word as an example of cultural imperialism.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #14
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    when programming you have to use US spellings :(

    And it's all the fault of Noah Webster , Dr Johnson wouldn't give a sausage for his work.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster
    Slowly, edition by edition, Webster changed the spelling of words, making them "Americanized." He chose s over c in words like defense, he changed the re to er in words like center, and he dropped one of the Ls in traveler. At first he kept the u in words like colour or favour but dropped it in later editions. He also changed "tongue" to "tung"—an innovation that never caught on


  • #15
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Bloody hate this word as an example of cultural imperialism.

    Yet seem to have no issue with the very English "Bloody".:D


  • #16
    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    i'd prefer to get with the "pogrom" 卐 lol.


  • #17
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭policarp


    Tap or faucet?
    Nappy or diaper?
    Sh*t or sh*te?
    They're just words...


  • #18
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Wow, judging by the poll I think this may be one of the few things boardsies actually agree on.


  • #19
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    UserName 217 wrote: »
    Only in Microsoft Word because its set to American (keep meaning to change it).

    Yeah good luck with that - even when you change it to Hibernian English or British English it still insists on doing things like putting in z's instead of s's in the -ise words and so on

    :rolleyes:


  • #20
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Bloody hate this word as an example of cultural imperialism.

    why? it's perfectly acceptable word, a bit overused but very rarely incorrectly. I can't think of anybody who uses it as an example of cultural imperialism, rather as a way to express awe in something


  • #21
    Downlinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    Voted yes.

    Well now this is awkward.


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