Comments on: Dear Apple http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=939 Quality Ramblings Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: rawiri http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=939&cpage=1#comment-2695 rawiri Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:17:54 +0000 http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=939#comment-2695 Sounds like the American way - fork it and stick with it. American English is essentially an evolved version of 1700's English :) Same dice with Metric - they agreed to it in the 70's yet they still talk in miles and pounds. What are you in Pittsburgh for? Sounds like the American way – fork it and stick with it. American English is essentially an evolved version of 1700′s English :)

Same dice with Metric – they agreed to it in the 70′s yet they still talk in miles and pounds.

What are you in Pittsburgh for?

]]> By: Tijs http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=939&cpage=1#comment-2688 Tijs Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:23:14 +0000 http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=939#comment-2688 Am writing this from Pittsburgh USA, so kinda appropriate to add my two cents on Americanisation/Americanization of English. I used to feel the same way about aluminium, until I read the background to the naming - much more to this than meets the eye:<br><br>"Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812"<br><br>Full story here: <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminiu...</a> Am writing this from Pittsburgh USA, so kinda appropriate to add my two cents on Americanisation/Americanization of English. I used to feel the same way about aluminium, until I read the background to the naming – much more to this than meets the eye:

“Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812″

Full story here: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminiu...

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