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**Err, that's what I mean, with Firefox. I use Firefox and everything comes up misspelled when I see words like "colour" and such. It's not a huge ordeal, and I know Wikipedia uses British English but I think we should stick to American English. --[[User:Champthom|Champthom]] 10:02, 28 January 2009 (CET) | **Err, that's what I mean, with Firefox. I use Firefox and everything comes up misspelled when I see words like "colour" and such. It's not a huge ordeal, and I know Wikipedia uses British English but I think we should stick to American English. --[[User:Champthom|Champthom]] 10:02, 28 January 2009 (CET) | ||
***I refuse to use anything less than the TRUE and ORIGINAL English. It's a minor point anyway, but I don't see any real reason to stop spelling things correctly. --[[User:ZAPPED|ZAPPED]] 14:59, 2 February 2009 (CET) | ***I refuse to use anything less than the TRUE and ORIGINAL English. It's a minor point anyway, but I don't see any real reason to stop spelling things correctly. --[[User:ZAPPED|ZAPPED]] 14:59, 2 February 2009 (CET) | ||
==Possessive of Chris== | |||
It's Chris's. From the very first page of Skunk & White's "Elements of Style", third edition: | |||
''1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. <br/>'' | |||
''Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write <br/>:'' | |||
''Charles's friend <br/>'' | |||
''Burns's poems <br/>'''' | |||
''the witch's malice <br/>'' | |||
''Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus' and such'' ''form as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake.'' --[[User:Champthom|Champthom]] 02:09, 7 February 2009 (CET) | |||
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First! lol. Really, I love the new wiki. Easier to use than the old one. --Champthom 07:29, 26 January 2009 (CET)
English usage?
While I think we can agree we won't use Moonspeak here, but what about English usage? Could we use American English because a majority of trolls are American? I don't mean to be an Amerifag but it's annoying as hell to add unnecessary vowels to words when spellcheck says it's wrong. --Champthom 07:25, 27 January 2009 (CET)
if there is an american english setting, i can't find it, the language code is simply "en" for english... i didn't even know mediawiki featured a spellcheck system, i thought that was my browser --cogsdev/vedsgoc 10:53, 27 January 2009 (CET)
- Err, that's what I mean, with Firefox. I use Firefox and everything comes up misspelled when I see words like "colour" and such. It's not a huge ordeal, and I know Wikipedia uses British English but I think we should stick to American English. --Champthom 10:02, 28 January 2009 (CET)
- I refuse to use anything less than the TRUE and ORIGINAL English. It's a minor point anyway, but I don't see any real reason to stop spelling things correctly. --ZAPPED 14:59, 2 February 2009 (CET)
- Err, that's what I mean, with Firefox. I use Firefox and everything comes up misspelled when I see words like "colour" and such. It's not a huge ordeal, and I know Wikipedia uses British English but I think we should stick to American English. --Champthom 10:02, 28 January 2009 (CET)
Possessive of Chris
It's Chris's. From the very first page of Skunk & White's "Elements of Style", third edition:
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's.
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write
:
Charles's friend
Burns's poems
''
the witch's malice
Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus' and such form as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. --Champthom 02:09, 7 February 2009 (CET)