Gracie wants 2 know...

We use that also; its perfectly acceptable.


What word do u use in its stead??



Fonetic spelling (like the Spanish) will simplify the situation.





David

We don't have governors, so we don't need to use the word.

So you say, Governor.

A distinction can be made between people like David who claim that their bad spelling is a virtue, and those who follow the rules of spelling over here. Additionally, you're being (intentionally or otherwise) disingenuous. So, you still put an unnecessary "u" in words such as color, humor, honor--but you've dropped the final "k" from tragic, magic, etc. The English have accepted some examples of spelling reform, and not others.

In David's case, he often failes to recognize that others don't pronounce the language as he does, and that therefore, his quixotic spellings are not necessarily intuitive reforms. Personally, i also object that we lose something if the language is pasteurized and homogenized as though it were a quart of milk, and we were timorous city dwellers, fearful of drinking milk as it comes from the cow.

Have you morphed into Dick Van Dyke?

I refuse to cooperate with your morbid obsession with morphology.

We're going to have to agree to differ on that. I read a book by an American writer recently, with your spellings, but the one exception was axe, which was spelled with an e. I always assumed you left the e out. Maybe our spellings are coming back through the back door. Although there is a chain of bathroom suppliers over here that call themselves 'Plumb Center,' so it's probably a two way street.

The reason I commented was that I've never heard anyone over here refer to anyone as 'governor.' In fact the only time I've ever come across it is watching American television, where one of the characters tries to adopt a 'British' accent. It's about as accurate as London fog, which existed in the 19th and early 20th Centuries because of the amount of heavy industry around the Thames. Various clean air acts have relegated London fog to the annals of History, but I still come across many Americans who believe the 'pea-souper,' is part of daily life.

Ax spelled with an "e" would be unusual over here. I am actually in favor of language anarchy. I revel in different spellings and pronunciations. I will never, however, desist from poking the Angle-ish about their spellings. What? Would you have me give up that harmless entertainment? I think not.

I will concede that, in some cases, that might be true, i.e.,
that the patient was not actually dead and that his death was misinterpreted;
anyone can make a mistake, but that 's not what the actual decedents
have in mind when thay use it.

Indeed, some of them describe it as awakening to a more clear reality
than thay had before the death. Some have had adventures
upon which thay report that later have been proven accurate.
For instance, a lady of my acquaintance, Mary Frances, spoke of
her death in the 1950s, while she had trouble giving birth
in a Florida hospital. She said that she saw one of her children
waiting her out, sitting on the top of a flight of wooden stairs
behind the hospital, and saw a female black cook give him
a slice of chocolate cake then descend the stairs and pull down
a miniature banana from a tree and give it to the boy.

She said that her thoughts then turned to her daughter in school,
several miles distant, whereupon she arrived in her class
and saw that a spelling test was being administered.
She saw that her child had misspelled one of the words
(not using fonetic spelling). She was invested with emotional
pain at the impending loss of her family, whereupon she
arrived back in the hospital and she re-entered her human body
and her body re-vived. Her doctor was enuf of a curious scientist
to inquire what it was like to be dead; she told him.

The cook confirmed the cake & the banana.
Mary 's husband was told of her adventures.
She said that he went to their child 's school,
the teacher confirmed that at the time of day
in question a spelling test was adminintered
and her daughter returned home with the misspelled word.

Revival of her human body co-incided with her re-entry therein,
she informed.


That has proven not always to be the case,
e.g., when a patient was on a mechanical pumping machine
when the heart is disconnected for work and the pump stops.
In this situation, after returning to life, the ex-deceased
(is that OK, Izzy?) has accurately described words and deeds
that were not discernable from his position on the table,
even if he had been awake.




That was the old thinking, later disproven by experience.
Up until the Wright Bros. did their thing in Kitty Hawk,
respected physicists asserted with confidence that
heavier than air flight was impossible (as the birds & bees flew
by outside the window). Refutation of earlier scientific thought
is not a new event. Einstein partially disproved Newton, etc.
We live & learn.




I see no reason to reject the defintions & descriptions of the surgeons
and of the revived patients themselves, some of whom were senior medical doctors in their own right.

We need not limit our beliefs to radios; we can also believe in radio waves.





David

I seriously doubt that you have any large body of anecdotal evidence for your claims, let alone more reliable evidence. If you want to continue to pretend that you have a serious basis for your silly remarks, you can do so without me.

I'm quite happy for you to carry on with your 'harmless' entertainment. At least you don't try to force your opinions on us, like some of your more obnoxious compatriots.

That is an error; we have huge amounts of it.
Its astonishing how when the subject arises in casual conversation,
how ofen people tell of personal experiences with it.


Confirmations of extra-human adventures exist, but thay r relatively rare.


OK. We 'll see if we can manage or not.





David

Its the same as if u repudiate belief in math.

I 'd say: "believe what u want; its no skin off MY back."





David

I don't agree with a lot of what you post Dave, but I don't find you obnoxious. Your postings do have an element of whimsical eccentricity.

Be that as it may.

Well, the spelling gestapo never prospered on this side of the pond, anyway.

Pretty amazing! Less than 12 hours later and look at all the bloviation I missed. This could be the record as I can not recognize the topic of the OP judging from the responses. I write this not to be mean-spirited, mind you. Whimsical eccentricity, in DEED.

In word and deed . . .

Look at what the lengths of obfuscation some people will go to avoid talking about menstruation.