sivatonight ([info]sivatonight) wrote,
@ 2008-06-17 18:03:00
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Current mood:all too proud
Current music:to keep pieces of my Canadian heritage.

Small Victory
I've struggled for the last little while that I could never remember how to spell "travelling". All of my programs mark it with the angry red line underneath indicating ERROR! I'm convinced it has two Ls, but spell check disagrees with me. But, but ... with one L it looks funny.

Well, aha!

Travelling is merely the Canadian English way to spell traveling.

I can't explain why this makes me so happy.

And yeah, this is a sucky way to come back from a 13 week LJ hiatus. Too bad.




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[info]jaclyn
2008-06-18 12:14 am UTC (link)
I like seeing you on LJ.

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[info]imagine102
2008-06-18 12:25 am UTC (link)
I always want to spell it with two "l"s as well, so don't feel bad!

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[info]revjim
2008-06-18 03:25 am UTC (link)
dear jess---

canadian's spell things in dumb ways. please give it up.

your loving, yet drunk, and very well endowed, husband,
daniel.

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[info]vaxocentric
2008-06-18 03:38 am UTC (link)
I saw "traveller" on my British Air boarding ticket and immediately thought it was misspelled, then I realized that English English is just kind of fuckity. Skwid confirmed:

http://vaxocentric.livejournal.com/308457.html?thread=1432809#t1432809

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Anglish
[info]xaminmo
2008-06-18 04:52 pm UTC (link)
Actually, Mr Webster decided to purposefully change the spelling of "American English" words in order to be distinctive from British English.

The other colonies seemed to not have such a beef with the Monarchy.

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[info]babybirdsbaby
2008-06-18 01:40 pm UTC (link)
Without looking on your comments, I just realized that your revjim's wife. He used to be on my FL a couple years ago. Ha. Small world, and small LJ world.

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[info]xaminmo
2008-06-18 04:50 pm UTC (link)
I spell it with two Ls also. TRAVE-LING is not TRAH-VEL-LING

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[info]kaiwynn
2008-07-20 11:12 pm UTC (link)
Join [info]spin_a_circle for a special birthday surprise for someone on your flist!

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