>>At least we keep the extra letters out (color vs colour) and we get the order right, (center, centre). < s >
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>Aye, Fred, but these words all come from French so blame them! < s >

OK. < s >

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>>I wont even mention "aluminum". ;)
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>Ah but you have!

How else could I spell it without mentioning it? ;)

>I remember during Dessert Storm thinking that the country trying to establish "Air Superiority" couldn't even pronounce it. Old Stormin' would say some treacly hotch-potch of R's sounding like
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>"eeer supeerrioriree".
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>You wanna take a look at yourselves in the "meeerrr" :-)

I'm sure you have your regions and dialects where the spoken language is hardly recognizable as to your own current speech patterns. Nearly each State here in the US can be uniquely identified by their speech, though to the untrained ear it sounds merely regional. In some cases, even the city is unique from it's surrounding areas.