Foolestroupe - the Walkaboutsverse thread has gone into the BS section(perhaps coincidentally, just after Eliza Carthy posted the same as you, on the Pop Goes the Folk-Singer thread), even though it contains CHANTS FROM WALKABOUTS. And the following was obviously a PROPOSAL - "StandardiS/Z!ation WOULD be good - we may pronounce words differently, but we all accept the same spelling."
DefShepard - by not reading this thread, you innocently gave us other examples of American changes...and that's what I said above: is it nowadays a case of enough is enough, or are there plays for enuf?! And, whether it's baseball or cricket, does the ball come off of the bat, or off the bat? Would Ernest (economy-of-words) Hemingway have used off of the bat?
Yours, WAV
16.05.2008