Whatinthehell are you talking about? :confused:

I got bit in the Upper Peninsula. [/B][/QUOTE]

Yeah yeah yeah...the way I hear it the "upper peninsula" is barely a small sand bar.

Does anybody here work? :)

oooops, gotta go, the boss is comin'

Nope.
Copper
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Don't feel too back, Chuck, I didn't get it either. Although now that I do, I gotta admit it's pretty good!

I guess I'm the only one. I just checked in for a couple of minutes, and now I've got to go find a loan for our After-School Program, write a sermon (I'm preaching Sunday on Why God is NOT like a Referee), shop for a new care home for my sister, get some laundry done, balance four checkbooks, cook dinner, shuffle two kids through their afternoon duties, and let's see, oh yes, I haven't finished the daily crossword puzzle yet.

Thanks for the break in the day -- it's always pleasant. And I especially liked the worm joke.

Re: British spelling
 

It is true that I spent a couple of my formative and impressionable years in London. And I honestly can't always tell whether some of my spellings and expressions are American or British. But, as has been pointed out, it is legal to spell it either way on "this side of the pond."

One of the more colourful gents I met there told me that he originally thought Americans were pilgrims who spoke b@stard English. Later he realized that he had it backwards. :D

We are, indeed, "two nations separated by a common language."

What's pilgrim English? :)

I was too busy laughing to ask :)

I thought the point was that we are English B@stards!
I also thought that Padgett would pop in with some Euro comment, but alas...

Anyway, I did learn the spelling difference in high school. My teacher told me this and I didn't believe her so I went over and got the dictionary and looked it up; sure enough in that very book it said, "br. sp".
So for the last 10 years I have always spelled it without the middle "e", but since even the dictionary that I have in my home now lists "judgement" as an alternative spelling, I'll use better jugement (middle English sp!) before saying anything in the future! :)

We've got the better English
 

The real irony is that we're closer to English's roots than the English. Take, for instance, the extraneous use of the letter 'u' (eg., colour, favour, behaviour) As I understand it, originally the British spelled these words the same way we do. Then, some while after America broke away, the French became popular in Britain and it was that influence that eventually altered the spelling. We Americans preserve the more pure form of the language :)