Barrel Stands (and other weird desires)
Trubble:
We were talking UK spelling, it's STOREY, and when you have more than one storey it's storeys. Story is a tale, a book.
You people in America are just weird :P :)
veilchen:
Quote from: nothingbutsims on 2005 August 03, 00:23:21
You two both need to take Spelling 101 again! It's S-T-O-R-Y (as in building - no E in there either), and when you have more than one floor, you have S-T-O-R-I-E-S.
:D That was the whole point of the discussion. AncientSim is an avid defender of the british spelling, she even has a wonderful story that's also very funny about this. The Brits spell the building kind storey, and a story is a the bed-time story that you tell your children. Same with colour vs. color, analyze vs. analyse etc.
I learned british english in germany, and even I get confused still. There truly is the english language and then there is the american language (witness brits cracking up when you tell them you have your wallet in your fanny pack, and americans cracking up when told to get the spare tire out of the boot, and what the heck is a lorry?)
G.
Trubble:
Yup yup, although now my brain is frazzled from all the storey discussion and all the versions look spelt wrong.
Don't even get me started on the fanny pack thing...
witch:
And then there are periods, English speaking women have them once a month, Americans put one at the end of every sentence.
English speakers use rubbers to delete pencil marks, American speakers use them for contraception. ;D
BTW Just to get back to the original topic, what other weird desires are shown in simpe?!? I'd look if I knew where they were.
Kitiara:
I am an American, and a woman, and I too have a period every month in addition to the period at the end of this sentence.
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