We english speakers normally use "course" in the sense of a stream running in a man-made channel, or a golf course... or a (cross country) race route. In my limited understanding, "way" is a prescribed but not neccessarily built route whereas a "road" is a formed route.
You know why the Brits chose "aluminium", don't you? Being the rectilinear folks they are, they wanted the name of the newly-discovered element to be orthogonal with the others (sodium, cadmium, etc.).
Which begs the question: What about oxygen, carbon, chlorine, gold, copper, lanthanum and manifold others that do not end in "ium"? What is to become of those?
I have an unobtanium (atomic number 113, atomic weight 287) mine modeled on my model railway. However I am going to have to remove the points going into it since the mine has never produced anything to date, and has never shipped a car. It now appears that unobtanium is only readily available inside the event horizon of black holes.
Indeed. It has nothing to do with concatenating polysyllabic words; it has to do with affected spelling. This is the 21st Century man! It is time to throw off the affectations of the "Better than thou" class and streamline the lexicon. Clinging to old-fashioned, misspelled words is a thoroughgoing manifestation of one's curmudgeonliness.
Indeed. It has nothing to do with concatenating polysyllabic words; it has to do with affected spelling. This is the 21st Century man! It is time to throw off the affectations of the "Better than thou" class and streamline the lexicon. Clinging to old-fashioned, misspelled words is a thoroughgoing manifestation of one's curmudgeonliness.
Please re-write the above quoted text, demonstrating the effective use of words containing four or more syllables in the sentence. EXAMPLE: "A - mer - i - can", instead of "Yank".
I haven't the slightest difficulty understanding words of more than four syllables. Trust me on this one. I wouldn't prevaricate anent such an important issue. Oh, by the way, don't worry about spelling, since the problem is likely the way you were taught in the early years. It's not really your fault.
I know you consider yourselves to be American and of course you are, but logic dictates that all people living in or of the Americas are Americans, so If you say "Americans" then I cannot be certain that you are Peruvians or Guatamalians or Mexicans. You have no name for yourselves or your country and "United States of Americans" is a bit wordy while "yanks" (note small "y") is a term recognised world wide without confusion.
Certainly, but yanks as a whole have settled on a simplified version of 'aluminium' which says it all.
I was quite happy spelling aluminium as I was taughr - you or whoever attempted to convince me that it should be dumbed down. ie, I'm the one being attacked.
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