Canadian spellings

[Masquerade]

Haha. Zevie, I say it like "Toronno" without the second T, most of the time, like Mars said. I live pretty close to the GTA, but not in a city or big town or anything. But pretty close just the same.
I live next to a family who has 12 kids. Shows you that I'm definitely a country girl.
I love meeting--well, "meeting"--other people from where I live on the Internet. Yay, Ontario!

[hahukumkonn]

I thought "Defence" was British/Canadian and "Defense" was USA?

British Columbian here. I use a hybridized Canada/US spelling as well - I write "sulphur" and "licence" but I also write "color" and such.

[Des]

I can't even spell in my native tongue very well, so English is a given.

-laughing-

Numbers is my thing, not words.

[Tensleep]

hahukumkonn said:

I thought "Defence" was British/Canadian and "Defense" was USA?

Could be. It wouldn't be the first time I've screwed that up.

[anotherillusion]

Defence is British
Another Illusion

[Keira]

British and Canadian spellings are often one in the same. Favourite, colour, cheque, etc... Not all Canadians --according to what Tens has told me -- spell words with the 'u's, etc... But yeah. They are often the same (British and Canadian).

[Tensleep]

Dude...obvious much?

[Keira]

*Hands on hips* Hey, all I was doing was saying it could go either way. Lol.

[BlindedxxFalcon]

[quote author=hahukumkonn board=grammar
thread=1179772186 post=1189904642]I thought "Defence" was British/Canadian and "Defense" was USA?[/quote]

Yup. Defense is how I spell it, and I'm American. Have been since the day I was born at Deleware County Memorial Hospital. I live in the Tristate area...Pennsyvania, New York and Delawere. I've been to Delawere quite a few times and New Jersey at least two.

[latch22]

I live in the Tristate area...Pennsyvania, New York and Delawere. I've been to Delawere quite a few times and New Jersey at least two.

That's the Tri-State area? ... Is there more than one? 'Cause I was under the impression that it was New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Not to be nitpicky or annoying, but I'm kind of confuzzled.

[latch22]

I rescind the question. Excuse my temporary ignorance. I have now learned something new. Learning is good.

Since there is apparently more than one Tri-State area, you are correct. I'm correct, too, but now I can't say that I live in the Tri-State area because that would still lead to confusion.

[BlindedxxFalcon]

I never knew there was more then one...I learned something, too.

[Nittanylizard]

I grew up in the South Jersey part of the tri-state area . It didn't even occur to me that North Jersey would call NJ, NY, and CT the same thing until I went to college (in North Jersey - go Rutgers!).

I was just thinking, that must sound confusing to anyone who just lives in the middle of a large state. And if you live where, like, four states meet, is that the quadra-state area? ;D

[BlindedxxFalcon]

I have no idea. I don't think so, but you never know with George Bush...

[kdlaxgoalie]

I think that there's multiple tri-state areas, but CT isn't part of one, it's in New England.

As for all the spellings.... no wonder I'm a "bad speller," I read so much stuff by both British/Canadian/NZ fanfic authors that half the time I end up spelling like them (exspecially favourite), it drives me nuts to constanty have things spelled "wrong." Exspecially since we here in New England tend to pronounce certain things more British-y than the rest of our country so it sorta sounds like the non-american spelling.