From: ygmir (ygmir@onemain.com)
Date: Sat Oct 22 2005 - 18:24:30 PDT
It might depend if the armour is made from aluminium, or, aluminum..........
And, I know which is correct..........
Henry
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From: "J. L." <milveh@dslextreme.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Is it armour or armor?
> Ah, the French again...armour armor armoire...lol Well, how about this
> version "armure" (as in chevalier) this refers to a knights armour.
>
> Of course you might know the only city in America to be build below sea
> level was sold to us by the French before we discovered you couldn't even
> dig a cemetary there? New Orleans, what a swamp..wish they would buy it
> back, but fat chance now that we wrecked it!
>
> The Colonies got off to a good start with English, then we started
> amalgamating different languages and who knows what we call our language
> now, it's a bit of olde English and 100 other things I suspect. In my
> area
> we speak some Thai, H'mong, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese and
> of
> course English, more Spanish and English than the others by far, but it's
> all fairly common depending on the particular area. In the U.S. state
> where
> I lived before we spoke English, Hawaiian and Japanese in that order. In
> Louisianna it's English, French, Spanish. It gets worse, the Spanish we
> speak in California is a lot different than the Spanish they speak in
> Spain,
> or even the Spanish they speak in Mexico! Funny country, eh?
>
> Did you know we never resolved what our national language should be, even
> to
> this day? In the begining (1776) we drafted the Constitution in German
> and
> English because there were so many German speaking citizens, and way back
> then there was some debate which language should be used as our principal
> language! lol
>
> au revoir mon amee' and cheers...
>
> Jacques LeMay-Lee, Fr., Eng.,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On Behalf
> Of dgrev
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:48 PM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: [MV] Is it armour or armor?
>
>
> Ian
>
>> I STAND CORRECTED. At least I spell "armor" as "armoUr".....
>
> As do we in Oz.
>
> The other day one of your fellow countrymen pointed out that
> the differences in British to US spelling came about due to
> the US spelling actually being the correct spelling of words
> in use in England at the time of the Pilgrim Fathers.
> In the period after the fleet left England the
> English Royalty had an infatuation with things French and
> affected French spellings of English words where ever
> possible.
> In the main, this would appear to be the addition of the
> letter "u". I do not have a French dictionary to hand, but
> seem to recall that the French word for armour (tank) is
> "Char". What they called a knight's armour I don't know?
> So it does appear to be the case of "affecting a French spelling"
> rather than use of the actuall French word.
>
> It does not encourage me to learn that all this time I have
> been using pseudo French. However, I am not all that convinced
> that you lot in the US are speaking c1700 English either, as
> your English is now rather intermixed with Spanish, Yiddish
> and countless African dialects.
>
> I have not been able to prove or disprove his information:
> perhaps others on this list would know?
>
> I am also curious (a "u" again!) as to why the US wants to
> state dates in the peculiar fashion it does. There is nothing
> logical about putting month/day/year.
>
> Regards
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of dgrev
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:47 AM
> To: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Ferret-heaven] Out of Town Until 10/22
>
> > Ian
>
> >> I will be out of town until 10/22, and will respond to all emails
> >> then!
>
>
> > Since our common interest is a certain British MV, I will take it that
> > you actually meant that date as 22/10? ;-)
>
> > Got to be authentic, eh what old chap........
>
> > Regards
> > Doug
>
>
>
>
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