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Flavor vs. Flavour
An anonymous reader writes "A recent flamewar ensued on the Linux kernel mailing list, this time debating the proper spelling of 'flavor', or is it 'flavour'? Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds joined the fray with some rather humorous comments. For the most part, it sounds like spellings will stay as they are, but it makes for an entertaining read."
I suggest we all, in a show of universal brotherhood and cultural tolerance, join hands and announce to the world:
Linux: It gots much flavah!
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
If I'm not mistaken (and I'm drawing on Grade 2 or 3 here), "flavour" is the proper English spelling (UK and Canada and Australia), whereas "flavor" is the common spelling (US). There are lots of words like that, including colour (color), centre (center), and idiot (ijit).
Dammit, I meant to post that anonymously!
Next week will we be covering Linus's trip to the bathroom?
It's an article about Torvalds' offhand comments about a flame war about the spelling of a non-critical word in the kernel tree.
Man, if I'd only subscribed I could have seen this way early!
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"A recent flamewar ensued on the Microsoft executive mailing list, this time debating the proper spelling of 'Linux'. Is it 'Linux,' 'GNU/Linux', 'cancer,' 'our biggest threat', or 'our second-biggest threat'?"
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In the fourth grade, I read War of the Worlds, in which theater was spelled "theatre". A few days after having finished it, I had to take a spelling test. One of the words was "theater", only I spelled it the other way, so it was marked wrong and I did not get a one hundred on the test. To this day, I hold that one test as a grudge against the British.
Its because of aluminium poisoning. Sorry, aluminum.
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Hello, this is Leenoos Toorvahlds and I spell flavor, f-l-a-v-o-u-r.
This sort of disagreement can only be resolved with a fork.
signed,
BSD
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1.Flavore
2.Flevor
3.Flirst Porst
4.PROFIT!!!
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...shouldn't that be humourous?
I fail to see how this relates to eyeball juices.
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Isn't this more or less how the different BSDs got started?
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No, it's called "English" as opposed to "American".
They speak English in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. and in America, they speak American. Also they pronounce the letter z wrong. it's Zed, not Zee. And they think Kraft dinner is Kraft mac & cheese (and food, for that matter), and the beer tastes like watered down piss. etc.
Differences in countries are stupid to debate about, because there's no right answer, just differences.
The only time I see it spelled "flavour" is in British recipe books. As in, "boil until all flavour and texture has vanished". :-)
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Google says:
Eminem - 2,230,000
Mozart - 1,970,000
Burger - 1,670,000
Caviar - 575,000
Piss - 2,750,000
Chardonnay - 742,000
Your point?
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Then why don't you spell it as "about a yard"?
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Please be quiet or I will assault you and have sex with your posterior.
As apposed to "Deep fry until rubbery, oily consistency has been achieved. Place between two halves of a bun. Serve."?