Topic: Wow, you Brits spell just as poorly as my fellow Americans...

[TasteTester]

I am in good company, I suppose. Not sure whether I feel justified seeing that the UK's spelling is just as bad as ours or if I feel disillusioned.  : lol Don't you know that people with British accents get cast for all the smart roles in American cinema?

Can someone tell me why or offer a theory on what when wrong teaching, "You change the 'Y' to 'I' and add 'E-S'!"?

[Secret Santa]

Can someone tell me why or offer a theory on what when wrong teaching, "You change the 'Y' to 'I' and add 'E-S'!"?

I assume you're referring to people pluralising curry to 'currys' when in fact it should be curries.

Yes it makes me wince too but it makes bugger-all difference to how well you can cook those curries!   :

[commis]

Wow,Your British spelling is just as incorrect as ourselves, in the colonies.
Yep!

[jimmy2x]

i think most of it is because this is the internet, not a paper to hand in for a job. we all get lazy and canny be ersed.

[Stephen Lindsay]

Am not a Brit am Skottish and I can spell kurrys wrongly too!

[TasteTester]

I assume you're referring to people pluralising curry to 'currys' when in fact it should be curries.

Yes it makes me wince too but it makes bugger-all difference to how well you can cook those curries!   :

Yep! Oh, and the -'s. The random apostrophe. I really thought that was an American endemic.

I am a shit speller, and part of it is the fault of my country for changing the spelling of English words at random. I never know if things should end in -ise or -ize. If I need to use the word more than once I spell it both ways... just to be safe. And maybe look like whichever one was wrong was just a typo.

[Stephen Lindsay]

the wrong use of apostrophes has been covered in a great book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Lynne-Truss/dp/0007329067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291937014&sr=8-1

[TasteTester]

Am not a Brit am Skottish and I can spell kurrys wrongly too!

Okay, don't kill me now, but I always considered Scots as Brits, too. You are the mainland of the British Isles and part of Great Britain. I have learned that people from the British Isles get particular about with whom to identify themselves. Confusing to me! Especially as a kid in history class when England AND Great Britain won that war against France for the Colonies. And then there was the UK. Whew, it was hard learning all your names. Our teachers didn't' really explain it, and I think it's because they themselves hadn't a clue.

[Stephen Lindsay]

Yup it's complicated and I won't kill you lol but we Scots, in the main, like to think of ourselves as Scottish first and British second (if at all). That's a bit simplistic but it works for a lot of us!!

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Oh no, a nationalist.  :

(Shouldn't that be curry's, by the way)...