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Title: Where From?
Post by: Sondra on June 11, 2004, 03:30:01 AM

I'm guessing a lot of people here are English. Or British. Which do you prefer? Anyway, I see a lot of English spellings like colour and favourite, so it seems like most people are from the UK! Well I was just wondering!

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Harlena McStarkney on June 11, 2004, 03:41:19 AM

I'm from the USA but I still use the British spelling of "favourite".  I dunno why, it's just a thing I do lol.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: on June 11, 2004, 07:06:52 AM

I too have had a long-time habit of UK spellings for such words as favourite or colour, even though I'm a Yank.

It just seems right, somehow, even tho it's entirely unnecessary.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: BeatleMania2004 on June 11, 2004, 09:45:25 AM

I'm from Australia, so we spell favourite as favourite and colour as colour! tehehe.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Ssarah on June 11, 2004, 01:46:15 PM

The U.S. but I love british accents and LOVE LOVE LOVE australian accents so that makes it better then the U.S. 

And color, is color.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: on June 11, 2004, 02:15:12 PM

I'm from Canada and I spell it "favourite" and "colour." And here, "Z" is pronounced "Zed" not "Zee."

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Ssarah on June 11, 2004, 05:39:36 PM

Geeze, I never realized words were spelled differently in other places.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Sondra on June 12, 2004, 01:42:54 AM

Yeah, I forgot Canadians use the English spellings. So it seems like there really aren't many people from the UK around here after all! Hmm.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Rowdy on June 12, 2004, 05:02:03 AM

Murphys, CA....a small little place with a lot of wineries in the foothills....about an hour from Sacramento. I'm a recent high school graduate who will be attending San Francisco State University beginning in August.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: pc31 on June 12, 2004, 10:26:00 AM

[quote by=Rowdy link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=8 date=1087016523]Murphys, CA....a small little place with a lot of wineries in the foothills....about an hour from Sacramento. I'm a recent high school graduate who will be attending San Francisco State University beginning in August.[/quote]
best of luck to you.keep your nose to the grind stone...me i am from florida........

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Wayne L. on June 12, 2004, 01:40:55 PM

I'm from the USA as in North Carolina, I graduated from, Sun Valley back in 82, I'm an aspiring lyricist with lots of creativity.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Naoki on June 15, 2004, 09:21:30 AM

me...im from Texas O.o

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Beatle Ed on June 15, 2004, 09:46:13 AM

Indiana, home of Corn, The Worlds Biggest Peach, Clyde the Camel, and Micheal Jackson(well formerly anyhow). 

ewww Indiana

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Bacchus on June 15, 2004, 12:02:26 PM

Currently Connecticut

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: The End on June 23, 2004, 03:32:21 PM

[quote by=Maccalvr link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=7 date=1087004574] So it seems like there really aren't many people from the UK around here after all! Hmm.[/quote]

I think there are actually only a couple of us Brits on the forum!

I wonder why America removed all the "U"s from their words. Anyone know?

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: LonelyPeople on June 23, 2004, 04:26:33 PM

b/c we're pretentious a**holes.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Sondra on July 02, 2004, 10:55:15 PM

[quote by=The_End link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=14 date=1088004741]

I think there are actually only a couple of us Brits on the forum!

I wonder why America removed all the "U"s from their words. Anyone know?[/quote]

I think the U is unecesarry in most of those words. Maybe we're lazy and didn't want to take the time to write the extra letter! You'd think their would be more Brits around here seeing as how the Beatles are from there! We've adopted them as our own though! "Our Beatles are better than your Rolling Stones!"-HS

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: The End on July 02, 2004, 11:49:50 PM

[quote by=Maccalvr link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=16 date=1088808915] "Our Beatles are better than your Rolling Stones!"
[/quote]

LOL ;D

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Sondra on July 03, 2004, 01:27:57 AM

Why are all the best bands from England anyway? And then what happened? I mean who's come out of there lately? And are there any British rap groups? That would be strange. Rapping with a British accent!!

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Herecomesyoursun on July 03, 2004, 03:31:35 AM

oh Brittish rapping will be the next big thing you just watch.  Whatever did happen to Brittish music.  hmmm...

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: The End on July 04, 2004, 11:56:23 PM

[quote by=Maccalvr link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=18 date=1088818077]That would be strange. Rapping with a British accent!![/quote]

Yeah, there are loads of British rap bands such as So Solid Crew, but it just sounds American! But, if you really want to hear rap with a British accent, listen to the Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" or anything by The Streets. :)

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: An Apple Beatle on July 13, 2004, 12:41:34 PM

Just checkin as a UK member.

The Streets is our current champion of English rap. It gets really funny when you hear Welsh accent rap. I hav'nt heard any Scottish or Irish rap yet. lol

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Joost on July 13, 2004, 01:04:21 PM

The Netherlands.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Val on July 13, 2004, 03:06:36 PM

Southern Lower Michigan

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Stratford on July 13, 2004, 04:59:36 PM

Well, in Norwegian schools the U spelling is optional, but I've always been using it, mostly because my family is English (my last name is Clark, very uncommon for a Norwegian). Currently I'm trying to replace all the American words in my vocabulary (I have a teacher telling me off if I say "truck" instead of "lorry") - and man, is it hard!

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: beatlegirl200 on July 13, 2004, 06:00:38 PM

I live in Florida.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Bruno on July 13, 2004, 06:05:32 PM

pc and I live in florida too

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: beatlegirl200 on July 13, 2004, 06:11:39 PM

Cool...what area?  I live in the Tampa Bay area.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Bruno on July 13, 2004, 06:31:49 PM

I live in Redington Beach, very close to St Pete Beach and the Tampa Bay area! :D

Go Bucs! Go Bolts! ;D

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: beatlegirl200 on July 13, 2004, 11:36:36 PM

Hell yeah...

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: broady on July 14, 2004, 05:32:06 AM

Sydney, Australia. Home to the best olympic games

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: An Apple Beatle on July 18, 2004, 03:54:57 PM

[quote by=Herecomesyoursun link=Blah.pl?b=conversations,m=1086924601,s=19 date=1088825495]oh Brittish rapping will be the next big thing you just watch.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: StrawberryFieldsforMe on July 19, 2004, 12:01:20 AM

I'm from Ohio, but I also use English grammer ("favourite", "colour", etc.) because I've grown up listening to songs with titles like "Green is the Colour" and "Any Colour You Like", and that's how I always thought they were spelled as a little kid.
I guess I never listen much in English class. X_X"

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: on July 21, 2004, 09:12:16 PM

Hi, I'm from Hamburg/Germany and I spell favourite as "Favorit" and colour as "Farbe"..... ;)

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: Bobcat on July 22, 2004, 06:16:48 AM

About 1 hour south of Sydney, Australia...home to, not alot. Unless your a Rugby League fan.

Title: Re: Where From?
Post by: The End on July 24, 2004, 06:32:12 PM

I'm STILL from London - even now!