though I think 8 was the first one I saw, for what that's worth
I think that was actually my newest one last week. :D
I am so with you on the serial comma. I had a third grade teacher who was of the old regime as far as grammar goes, and it was drilled into my head as, "Some people don't use it, but they're WRONG, do you hear me, WRONG!"
I feel like half the Americans I know use British spellings a lot. We must all be a bunch of Anglophiles. *g* I blame the excessive BritLit I read as a kid. I still cringe internally when I have to use a "z" in words like "sympathise," or spell the color "gray" instead of "grey." But British punctuation? Gah. No. Punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks.
At Thanksgiving, you have "stuffing" or "filling,"
Huh. I've never heard it called "filling." Nifty. I know about the convention of stuffing being in the bird and dressing being in a pan (which means that I've never had "stuffing"), and I have a slight tendency towards "turky and dressing" over the other, but beyond that they appear pretty much evenly in my speech. Dad's from TN, Mom's from Ohio by way of Florida. I think that explains much about my speech. ;)
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Date: 2006-06-08 04:23 am (UTC)I think that was actually my newest one last week. :D
I am so with you on the serial comma. I had a third grade teacher who was of the old regime as far as grammar goes, and it was drilled into my head as, "Some people don't use it, but they're WRONG, do you hear me, WRONG!"
I feel like half the Americans I know use British spellings a lot. We must all be a bunch of Anglophiles. *g* I blame the excessive BritLit I read as a kid. I still cringe internally when I have to use a "z" in words like "sympathise," or spell the color "gray" instead of "grey." But British punctuation? Gah. No. Punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks.
At Thanksgiving, you have "stuffing" or "filling,"
Huh. I've never heard it called "filling." Nifty. I know about the convention of stuffing being in the bird and dressing being in a pan (which means that I've never had "stuffing"), and I have a slight tendency towards "turky and dressing" over the other, but beyond that they appear pretty much evenly in my speech. Dad's from TN, Mom's from Ohio by way of Florida. I think that explains much about my speech. ;)