Well my mum and late grandmother became Canadian after being here for a long time, but I"m the only one to be born and raised here.
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Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
Well my mum and late grandmother became Canadian after being here for a long time, but I"m the only one to be born and raised here.
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
Yep, it's the best. Whenever I go to Europe you just wave your passport-no lines. I'm the only Canadian in my family. The rest are British and German (Grandparents and up are mostly German, few...
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
:D :D
I swear one day I'll just get on a plane and move there (I actually almost did once-I was in London and almost didn't leave!!), that way I guess everyone will have an accent :)
My...
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
You say bin or been? I've never even heard of 'bin' pronouncing before!!
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
We pronounce it as British too! I loooooove British accents though, gotta marry a Brit so I can listen to the accent all day long :p
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
After reading through this thread again, I don't even know what's American and Canadian half the time, except of course for the obvious cultural ones like toque and zed :) .
Although, I've heard...
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
I can guess what that means but huh?
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
skilful is 1 l? I thought it was skillful; and the ze, se, I'm definitely American on. OK, I got manoeuvre wrong on that english test too!!! banque? OK, that's it, I'm not reading anymore right...
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OMG, I spelled it wrong :o , I am sooooooo bad!!!!
OK, I'm going to check out that link now!
Re: Canadians: do you spell things the American or British way?
This thread is so funny!! I tend to spell things the Canadian way (colour, favour, cheque of course), but some things I am super Americanized. I took a test last week and you had to say what words...