The Yanks could care less.
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The Yanks could care less.
I've never understood this. There is only one letter difference, so why did they purge it?!
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We do it to remove redundancy in our spelling and pronunciation so we can add it back in everything else we do.
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Because saying aluminium is way too involved to fit in my busy day. I got @#&* to do!
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Because saying aluminium is way too involved to fit in my busy day. I got @#&* to do!
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was that a pun if so good work.
if not.... you possibly just hit on my most hated Americanism..... almost on a par with the double negative (I dont know nothing)
PS just for the record... i hope everyone is taking this all in good friendly fun. I would hate to be involved in some xenophobic hate thing...... otherwise they would get us all building a wall and expect us to pay for it
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It's "couldnt care less". You care so little that you cannot care any less.
To say "could care less" means that you care to some degree.
In other words this nonsenical mangling of this phrase results in the opposite meaning.
dumb.
Apologies if you were being amusing and i did not realise but the complete idiocy of this Americanism really annoys me. The words, yes the words with their meanings, in this order, mean the very opposite of the original meaning. But no, some folk don't care... why? Ignorance, I guess.
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Achilles7
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Davy originally named it Alumium..then Aluminum..finally Aluminium - fashion dictated that many discoveries at the turn of the C19th had the suffix 'ium'..that's why it was finally changed & why there is the discrepancy.
Btw, I've just read 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' which discusses this, by coincidence!
Sit down. You're emotional.
Come to think of it, you probably are sitting down. Either that or typing on a phone while standing or driving if not sitting down, in which case I would say pay attention to what you're doing and we'll talk later.
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Next up.
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Predictions for Season 3 launch? I am going to guess at "The Fall"
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Predictions for Season 3 launch? I am going to guess at "The Fall"
Northern or Southern hemisphere?
Davy originally named it Alumium..then Aluminum..finally Aluminium - fashion dictated that many discoveries at the turn of the C19th had the suffix 'ium'..that's why it was finally changed & why there is the discrepancy.
Btw, I've just read 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' which discusses this, by coincidence!
Fortunately this was resolved a while ago; The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised it as 'Aluminium' back in 1990. Anyone who insists on the other variants is now officially a scientific Neanderthal!
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Arguing for common-sense? Yes, I suppose it is rather pointless.
Ah, I still fondly remember my utter confusion when I first heard Americans say`Aluminium`. But the best was when one American I knew said `Leicestershire`- I near had a spasm. The word was butchered to death. Good times.
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If thats the case wouldnt they have also thrown on an "e" at the end for no good reason (Coloure)?
Ian Phillips
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We should all sit down together and color in a colour plate to help us calm down!
Maybe Open should use American English
Solo can use British English
and PGs can take bits of both and use Australian English
strewth! that makes me an Ozzy
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When my step mother says Worcestershire, it cracks me up. Woor chest ear shyrrre. I get her to try to say Bicester, funny as the proverbial.
Jenner
I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
My mother could never say 'burglar' for some reason. It was always 'boogular'.