A Little Detail i noticed

[IRT_BMT_IND]

I was looking trhough the O&M archives, And I noticed that when Llewellyn speaks, Simpson writes the European spelling of words. For example, in <a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/1999/om19990805.html' target='_blank'>This Strip</a>, when he says the word "centimeters", it's spelled centimetres, even though north americans spell it with an "er". <br><br>If i find more examples of them, i'll post this(Maybe it just was an accidendal spelling mistake)

[Foxchild]

actually, somehting like that had been noticed before, but the connection to the European spellings had not been drawn... i believe it was over the word "Chilie". hmm, this deserves some further investigating.

[norsenerd]

Not me *puts my finger to my nose*

[erikbarrett]

That would be an alternative spelling, not a misspelling. I'd hate for someone to tell me I can't spell or count because I cross my Z's and 7's.

[norsenerd]

sweet. *high fives erikburning with my free hand* I cross my z's and b's. My b's look exaclty like my 6's.

[IRT_BMT_IND]

I pointed it out because i thought it ight have something to do with Llewellyn being from the UK(because the use different spellings there)

[Zylo]

Things like meter and metre are the same, it's just that the US uses "meter" more frequently, which is kinda egotistical of us to try to change the spellings of a system our nation doesn't use.

[Elscire]

DraganFox, not <i>quite</i> true.<br><br>I'm not quite sure about in the US, but 'met<b>re</b>'here is exclusively a unit of distance, whereas 'met<b>er</b>' can be either a distance, or a measuring device.<br><br>As for centimeters and centimetres, I didn't notice that at all when I read that strip myself, as I only know the latter spelling =P

[hdofu]

Personally I thought it had something to do with his being alive before dictonarys were offering standardised spellings<br><br>Stupid numismatic trivia time, the original spelling of Dimes was dismes, and they were prounced like the eam in team.

[Burning Sheep Productions]

Wow, that's really detailed.

[Dr. Doog]

metre measuring device? thats a meter stick. i think it has something to do with changing the rudiments to go with new words. hey, i'm the 2004 2nd place 5th-6th grade speller of my county. couldn't have done it if i didn't understand rudiments. so would you doubt me?

[Elscire]

<!--QuoteBegin-Dr. Doog+Mar 24 2004, 09:59 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Dr. Doog @ Mar 24 2004, 09:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> metre measuring device? thats a meter stick. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> No, i said that a met<b>er</b> was a measuring device (of any sort, you know, a radiation meter, etcetera)<br><br>metre stick or metre rule is yes, a stick a metre long!<br><br>If you are argue with me, at least read what I'm writing <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Dr. Doog]

oh, that. but thats like they're there and their. doesn't matter a poop for this occasion.

[Henohenomoheji]

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[Dr. Dos]

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