[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 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)