***Edited for the Irish. Sorry for the offense.***
I was writing something a few minutes ago and i wrote in 'apologise', and that little red squiggle came up under the word. I immediately fixed it, but felt something was still wrong. I discussed it with my fiancee. She told me that, back in the old days, when America wanted to disassociate themselves from the English, they (aside from changing their conversion system) changed the spelling on a lot of their words.
Apologise became apologize. Aeroplane became airplane. Aluminium and aluminum. Mum became mom. Titbit or tidbit.
After doing some research, i've found its different depending on where you come from. Obviously, the English and American spelling is different from each other, but Ireland, Canada and Australia have a mixture of both, Canada and Australia especially.
I can understand this. All three countries have different ways of which they have come to be - Australia has become a multi-national country, Canada is English/French settlers, and Ireland are a bunch of...inebriated Scots (Actually dont know where the Irish came from. Sorry.)
Has anybody else ever struggled with this in the past? Its a good chance to look back at the English language as a historical piece, instead of just a tool we use to communicate to one another. Reading through the Wiki entrance reveals a lot of surprising revelation as to where a lot of words come from.
I was writing something a few minutes ago and i wrote in 'apologise', and that little red squiggle came up under the word. I immediately fixed it, but felt something was still wrong. I discussed it with my fiancee. She told me that, back in the old days, when America wanted to disassociate themselves from the English, they (aside from changing their conversion system) changed the spelling on a lot of their words.
Apologise became apologize. Aeroplane became airplane. Aluminium and aluminum. Mum became mom. Titbit or tidbit.
After doing some research, i've found its different depending on where you come from. Obviously, the English and American spelling is different from each other, but Ireland, Canada and Australia have a mixture of both, Canada and Australia especially.
I can understand this. All three countries have different ways of which they have come to be - Australia has become a multi-national country, Canada is English/French settlers, and Ireland are a bunch of...inebriated Scots (Actually dont know where the Irish came from. Sorry.)
Has anybody else ever struggled with this in the past? Its a good chance to look back at the English language as a historical piece, instead of just a tool we use to communicate to one another. Reading through the Wiki entrance reveals a lot of surprising revelation as to where a lot of words come from.
