Favorite? Surely favourite

[Adrian_Morgan]

Dear IPC website manager

Why has good old YM gone American? Indeed on all the forums there's a click that invites us to pick our "favorite" site. IPC publish British magazines, using English spelling. So why the Americanism on the web site? We still spell favourite with a u over here (for the time being).

Yours etc

Pedant

 

[ccscott49]

Whole heartedly agree, well said! enough of the dilution of OUR language.

 

[ianwright]

You tell 'em Aidy baby!
Oh,, and you're right about the 'J' boats too,,,,,,,

Ian.

Vertue 203, Patience

 

[kimhollamby]

Oops...sorry Adrian. Could claim we are tring to make our North American users feel at home but bottom line is software was written 'over there' and we missed that one when processing through the purity mill.

We'll get it corrected as soon as we get a mo(ment).

 

[Twister_Ken]

How can taking something out be dilution?

And you talk about preserving our language

 

[Twister_Ken]

Presumably Adrian

Would also like the J's to be sailed by guys in woolly jumpers, cotton vests and serge trousers

 

[AndrewB]

Nice one, Ken! And on the subject of water ...

What on earth is 'organic' water? (spotted in Sainsbury's yesterday).

So now organic = inorganic. How's that for dilution of the language?

 

[vyv_cox]

Organic water

is the one with the bacteria, plastic bottle solvents, antibiotics, farm run-off, etc. A programme on TV a couple of years ago indicated that many bottled waters have huge organics contents by comparison with mains water. Not counting their sodium content, of course. The best water in UK, from every contaminant and taste point of view, came out of taps in Manchester.

 

[Bergman]

Sad fact is that now the English language is the posession of Bill Gates and Microsoft.

If Word Spellcheck says "color" its color.

Don't know how to fight it, perhaps we ought to go MAC in protest

 

[ianwright]

Re: Presumably Adrian

Quite right, and the officers in Gieves and Hawkes caps.

Vertue 203, Patience

 

[kimhollamby]

...ummm - big Mac fans here in the tower, myself included. But Mac have recently upset a lot of Brits by ducking the issue of certain UK English OS words and insisted, for instance, that we throw everything in the <trash>. A Windows <Recycle Bin> seems almost Home Counties in comparison.

All of that said, we'll endeavour to add in the essential 'u's if found missing...you should see your favorites become favourites 'ere long. And I'm absolutely sure that the magazine journalists here won't let their 'u's slip round the bend...

 

[Twister_Ken]

Maybe apocryphal but...

...it's rumoured that when the US first became involved in meeting and escorting convoys in WW2 (you know, the 42-45 one) the USS destroyer leading the escort aldised the Convoy Commodore:

"Wecome. Follow me into harbor"

The reply flashed back:

"Thank you. Strange way to spell harbour"

 

[LadyInBed]

Re: Organic water

I think I passed some organic water about an hour ago!

 

[Guest]

In a life where little has gone right, buying a Mac is one of the biggest and most expensive mistakes I have made.

 

[Colinh]

Re: Organic water

Don't firget that the water that comes out of the taps in Manchester was once known as Windemere.

Colin

 

[Guest]

Thanks Kim. Is 'tring' American for trying?

 

[kimhollamby]

Waving the white flag...or should that be whate flig?

 

[kimhollamby]

Out of interest, if you can bear to say, what Mac and what OS version?

 

[Guest]

Probably, if it has a red cross and union flag in one cornah.

 

[kimhollamby]

In light of similar posts elsewhere here, not being drawn on that one...