I am a language elitist, just as Kelvin is a musical snob in his taste.
I hate it when people use Americanized English spelling. Go to hell man! If you want to spell 'centralized', 'realized', 'ton', 'program', and the like in this way, then go face the wall start reciting that colour is spelt c-o-l-o-r, favourite is f-a-v-o-r-i-t-e and start learning how to measure in fractions of inches. Really. Just go to hell. If you think that 'program' is correct, then please check your bloody dictionary in your MS word. If programme is wrong then your dictionary is American and thus colours and neighbours would be too. It is as good as bad grammar and pronouncing 'children' as 'chew-ren'.
No I am not pinpointing anyone in particular, just incensed because I saw my student's English test paper, and the essay question contained Americanized English spelling. It is a good school. Where do these English teachers get their training from!? Next they will be saying that it is 'alright' instead of 'all right', and then they will also say the letter H pronounced 'heych' and not 'a-ch', and 'since young' and 'fuming mad' are correct usages of the English language. There will soon be 26 alphabets instead of 1 English alphabet with 26 letters. Oh please, bastardise the language further, go ahead.
If you cannot even speak English properly or write well, go home and please don't be an English teacher anymore. Or else please check your MS Word dictionary. My kids need to learn the right thing.
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