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Grokster Launches Fear Campaign
An anonymous reader writes "Slyck is reporting on Grokster's new scare tactic. Suddenly it's become taboo to head over to Grokster.com. In a transparent attempt to scare potential P2P users, Grokster.com has reinforced its anti-P2P sentiment. The visitor's IP address is clearly displayed in large font on the Grokser's homepage while indicating the address was logged."
Why do people in the US persist in spelling the word "neighbour" as neighbor?
Why not go the whole hog and write: nabur or naybur?
Because if we spelled it with a U, we would have failed our 5th grade spelling tests.
Seriously, you do realize that in the US we speak a dialect of English called "American English"? And that what you apparently speak is a dialect called "Commonwealth English"? Since they are different dialects, the rules of written and verbal speech are considered independent of each other and not incorrect as they relate to the other dialect. Our dialect dropped the U from many words almost 200 years ago, in addition to many other spelling changes.
By the by, I'd also like to mention that some 60% of the English speaking world speaks the American English dialect compared to only about 15-20% that use the Commonwealth English dialect. So, I'd say that we rather outnumber you, too bad old chap.
P.S. Do you still spell music with a k? How about wagon, still using 2 G's? Those were the "proper" british spellings of those words back in the early 1800s when the US changed them up (due in large part to Webster's dictionary, perhaps you've heard of it?) Odd how you Brits changed the spellings of some of your words, but left others in that have nothing to do with pronounciation.