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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @B3 - I know and there's the "Queen's English" too so best to lump it in one inclusive group, I thought.   English English sounds too exclusive and, in any case, I am British, not English.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I don't recall that in IT, I worked from 'spec(k)s' in the 70's. Languages change though and pronunciation too. English has evolved from a hojpoj (hodge-podge?) of other languages that themselves evolved from... Then within the UK, the regions (and trades) have their own dialects. That is the beauty of languages - they live.
    I read some Conan Doyle a while back and I recall (maybe incorrectly) that he used check for cheque.
    Didn't Webster purposely change spelling spellings for American English partly to emphasis/reinforce the national differences?
     

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The grammar of standard Scottish English differs from standard English English. Standard Canadian, Irish, Jamaican, Australian, Hong Kong, Indian, Nigerian etc. etc English. All have their own rules ,which will differ slightly from each other and from English English.
    Her Majesty, has her own version. One of the perks of being Queen.
    It is indeed exclusive to England , just as each country's variety of English is exclusive to that country.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2020
    @steveTu

    maybe spek to rhyme with tec for all those IT techies 👨🏼‍💻 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited September 2020
    ..or just maybe no one in IT knew what 'spec' stood for and thought it was all about being speculative..

    ..and back then it wasn't called IT that I recall - I just worked on/with computers writing software. Tech to me still is tech support - ie them wot goes around sorting out why MS Windows give the blue screen of death and telling you to turn the computer off and on again...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  •  KT53, this wasn't inconsiderate delivery drivers, it was friends of my neighbourghs
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Are we supposed to say ‘speckification’ 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • You can still buy lino, its devilishly expensive
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited September 2020
    Say what you like as long as the person you're conversing with understands what you're saying. That's the whole point of language surely? The rules and spelling exist to make that understanding easier - but as you know from language,  words, their meaning and pronunciation change over time.

    Edited: Didn't Shakespeare 'allegedly' add a fair few words and terms to the English language? But wouldn't that be odd for a playwright  to use terms that his audience may not then understand - more likely he first documented their usage?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    But at least it's natural ingredients.   

    @B3 - I have English, Scottish, Irish and half Danish grand-parents and was born in what is now Tanzania.  British English for me then.

    @Nanny Beach, There's a chap I've met in the garden club I joined and who reminds us, every time a group of us visits, not to park on a certain portion of grass verge because it belongs to his part-time neighbours' holiday home.  They're Parisians and get very bolshy about infringements even when they're not blocking access.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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