[accent, spelling]
Oct. 15th, 2004 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxI'm finding myself both amused and bemused to be apparently unable to decide if I want to be using the British spelling of words (eg 'humour' or 'humor'), and periodically not being able to decide which pronunciation I want to use for certain words.
Hell, sometimes I use different pronunciations _in the same sentence_, especially if I'm talking to someone who pronounces certain words differently than I would, but in a way that also makes sense to me. (or, worse, if it's a way I used to try to pronounce a word until I realized that no one around me did).
*shakes head* I'm _so_ glad I'm not trying to teach anyone English, because I'm confusing _myself_, here!
(for that matter, I've never been able to figure out if it's spelled 'gray' or 'grey')
Hell, sometimes I use different pronunciations _in the same sentence_, especially if I'm talking to someone who pronounces certain words differently than I would, but in a way that also makes sense to me. (or, worse, if it's a way I used to try to pronounce a word until I realized that no one around me did).
*shakes head* I'm _so_ glad I'm not trying to teach anyone English, because I'm confusing _myself_, here!
(for that matter, I've never been able to figure out if it's spelled 'gray' or 'grey')
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Date: 2004-10-15 08:13 pm (UTC)I just use whatever one looks better at the time. Skies are gray, shirts are usually grey, faces are usually grey as are eyes, ocean is usually gray. Oh, and wool cloth is always gray.
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Date: 2004-10-15 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-15 10:37 pm (UTC)Kittens are grey. I think that things that make me happy are grey, and things that are a bit depressing (even beautiful-depressing) are gray.
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Date: 2004-10-16 07:08 am (UTC)