Some of our words and our spellings do reflect British usage, however. We wouldn’t use the British term “lorry” for truck, but we have kept the “o-u-r” spellings in words such as “honour” and “colour”.I: This has been very interesting. I’m afraid we’re out of time....
“Bangalore”. While post-British decolonisation was at the heart of the desire to change names, many of the new names were the result of spelling changes to align with the prevailing local languages/ethnic communities (eg,Kolkatais a Bengali word for a city nearly two-thirds populated by ...
Spelling yielded to my logic. Given a set of 10 words to learn overnight I would almost always get 10/10 in the morning spelling bee. Until the teacher changed tactics, announcing one morning, ‘Write out the words you learned last night.’ I was instantly undone; my method was to focu...
Molly and Mollie are frequent spellings of this classic name, but adding an "e" to the end of the former is a less common choice, used just five times in 1962. Perhaps these variations were inspired by Jerry Lee Lewis' popular cover of the Little Richard song "Good Golly, Miss Molly,...
The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment—to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful. Most of the class might be considered economically disadvantaged, but still many would celebrate the holiday with turkey and other traditional goodies of the season. These, the ...
If this is true, I’m sure Russia, Iran, and Turkey would be glad to step aside and let it happen. Here’s why. 1. It would be the end of the Petrodollar. 2. It would put Russia, and Iran in complete control of the worlds oil after the Saudi’s have completed destroying the ...
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