+148 If so many of you hate British English, like the words "colour" and "honour", then you cannot possibly like Harry Potter. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Touche my friend, touche

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's the spelling we don't like. The accents...well, that's a different story.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The spelling isn't really British. Every English-speaking person spells words that way, except Americans.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

O don't like Harry potter. Period.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, O sucks.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*I*, "not o"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't remember them being spelled that way when they were released in America. And to someone who grew up with "abridged" spellings like color, honor, etc, it looks kind of goofy that the rest of the English-speaking world spells it with an extra letter that doesn't seem entirely necessary. I'm not saying it's not, but in America the words are said the same way but one of them has an extra letter. It's kind of like "Why is that there if the simpler spelling has the same pronunciation?"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you know, cuz the rest of english spelling, on either side of the pond, makes total sense. noah webster may have tried making spelling easier, but there's only so much he could do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

LOL, nearly every word in the English language has too many letters. I'm a foreign speaker, I would know. Look: would could be wud or wood; knee could be neel; aisle could be ile; island could be iland. English has pretty much the most silent letters than the other languages, and you've only noticed these few words with OU in them instead of O?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That is true, as is true with other languages, of course. The "o"/"ou" is just one of many examples. There are some that can't be avoided in their own way to preserve the meaning (would and wood, I think) but you're right--words like kneel could easily be neel and would save foreign speakers a lot of trouble.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unfortunately, I can only speak for myself, but I make fun of British English for the heck of making fun of it. And if anyone actually hates British English, they need to get their priorities straight. And what kind of shallow idiot would judge an absolutely incredible series based on minor differences in spelling?

by Anonymous 12 years ago