psychoideas

Don't forget to check the tyres. Have a look at the sills for stone chips. What colour are your wheels and are they made out of Aluminium

breale01

I'm Canadian, so 'colour' is spelled 'correctly', however, my wheels are 'aluminum', not 'aluminium' and my 'tires' are black. Us Canucks are caught somewhere between the Yanks and Brits/Aussies. And it's 'zed', not 'zee'.

rocketdogbert

Google Noah Webster lol

John

breale01

'His most important improvement, he claimed, was to rescue "our native tongue" from "the clamour of pedantry" that surrounded English grammar and pronunciation. He complained that the English language had been corrupted by the British aristocracy, which set its own standard for proper spelling and pronunciation.' - Wikip

So he's the culprit.

rocketdogbert

Yep. For me, as long as I'm understood, it doesn't matter. Tire/Tyre etc

Cowl and scuttle though, bit trickier

breale01

It's all part of what makes the world a more interesting place, even within the anglophone community.

Cowl and Scuttle....my kid is dressing up as a pirate for haloween. Sounds like something he could use in his pirate vocabulary....."aaaarrrrgh, cowl and scuttle !"

rocketdogbert

ha ha, don't get me started on pirates. Why they all say "aaaaaarrrrrrgh"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_in_popular_culture

"Stereotypical pirate accents tend to resemble accents either from Cornwall or Bristol in South West England, though they can also be based on Elizabethan era English or other parts of the world. Pirates in film, television and theatre are generally depicted as speaking English in a particular accent and speech pattern that sounds like a cross between a West country accent and an old English accent, patterned on that of Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in 1950 film Treasure Island."

breale01

LOL, full circle, back to England.

John Boggiano

Who'd have thought a thread about a rubber seal on a 964 would include Long John Silver? :-)