Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
It's a language problem betwen us here in Englandicon and those wild Colonials in the Americas!
Yes, we Colonials dishourably belaboured the slaughter of the Shakespearian tongue, changing spellings and meanings. We call the muzzle end (nose) the "front" of a rifle, and the butt (anal sphincter) the "rear" because that where they belong on the animal species. And we think that a "scheme" is an insidious plan by an evil conniver, and cannot engage in "secondment" (cross pollination across organizations) because the brilliant Webster decided to leave the word out of the American dictionary.

Imaging the poor plight of our neighbors in the Dominion of Canadaicon -- caught in the cross fire between the Queens English, Quebec Frenchicon, and street-sloppy American English. It's amazing the Commonwealth still tolerates us. Maybe having stepped into breech in WW I & II has kept America in the Commonwealth's good graces. And I suppose the fact that we love Enfields is our most endearing quality.