this side of the pond, we pronounce it "ESS-trogen. Why, we wonder, must you lot add an unnecessary letter and then pronounce it EES-trogen?
... because the Greeks invented the word, and we didn't want to marr it with a lazy accent? *shrugs*
Also, what makes you so certain we added an extra letter, rather than you taking one out? :-p
My I direct you to such spellings as "colour", "neighbour" and "favourite."
Then there's replacing 's' with a 'z'. "Realise" and "apologise" for example.
... don't get me started on "defence".
So really, if anyone's being uneccessary, it's the folksies across the pond with the drawl and lazy spelling system that are total language!fail.
^^^ all above said with love and gratitude ^^^
And yes, I am curing it on the NHS, because it clearly works, and you can tell your 'propaganda' spreading idiots that it's been tried and tested here - and worked- for over sixty years. In fact, if it wasn't for the NHS, our population would probably be significantly lower (which is both a good and a bad thing ...)
You really need an NHS. It would do any country the world of good.
^^ just read this whole comment back, and I sound really arsey. I don't intend to. Just read it again and use my favourite mental image of Owen Harper explaining something very, very serious to Tosh and Gwen while Jack and Ianto are behind him wearing nothing but tea-cosies, sticking out their tongues and doing a naked Can-Can.
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Date: 2009-10-13 01:54 pm (UTC)Yeah ... we invented the language ...
this side of the pond, we pronounce it "ESS-trogen. Why, we wonder, must you lot add an unnecessary letter and then pronounce it EES-trogen?
... because the Greeks invented the word, and we didn't want to marr it with a lazy accent? *shrugs*
Also, what makes you so certain we added an extra letter, rather than you taking one out? :-p
My I direct you to such spellings as "colour", "neighbour" and "favourite."
Then there's replacing 's' with a 'z'. "Realise" and "apologise" for example.
... don't get me started on "defence".
So really, if anyone's being uneccessary, it's the folksies across the pond with the drawl and lazy spelling system that are total language!fail.
^^^ all above said with love and gratitude ^^^
And yes, I am curing it on the NHS, because it clearly works, and you can tell your 'propaganda' spreading idiots that it's been tried and tested here - and worked- for over sixty years. In fact, if it wasn't for the NHS, our population would probably be significantly lower (which is both a good and a bad thing ...)
You really need an NHS. It would do any country the world of good.
^^ just read this whole comment back, and I sound really arsey. I don't intend to. Just read it again and use my favourite mental image of Owen Harper explaining something very, very serious to Tosh and Gwen while Jack and Ianto are behind him wearing nothing but tea-cosies, sticking out their tongues and doing a naked Can-Can.
Failing that, have a biscuit.