XP SUCKS

[David Candy]

We're talking about wheat are we. If you want to refer to this wheat then I suppose it's neither US or English but all english variants..

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

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My apologies to all the Brits in this group. I should have checked
first.

I jumped to the conclusion that this was someone who had attended our
new school systems here in the states. The ones where they dont put
an emphasis on proper spelling anymore.

I'm an American, not a Brit (I just happen to know the British
spelling of the word), but I'll accept your apology anyway.

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[someone]

How can you determine that it always makes mistakes when
you can't see your own?
Just wait till Mickey and Goofy get through with it.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

So what'd he get, a 79 %? )
Wes

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don't

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[Wesley Vogel]

Winston Churchill said that what separates the British from
North Americans is a common language.

I searched all over for the exact quote.
I found 174 quotes by Sir Winston Churchill and I could
not find the exact quote. :-(

Wes

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[someone]

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/England/

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Winston Churchill said that what separates the British from
North Americans is a common language.

I searched all over for the exact quote.
I found 174 quotes by Sir Winston Churchill and I could
not find the exact quote. :-(

Apparemtly he never said it. See
http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000149.htm

 

[ray w.]

I believe it was McDouglas 1943 who said it.. I"ll be back!

Or was it that new guy in California?

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My apologies to all the Brits in this group. I should have checked
first.

I jumped to the conclusion that this was someone who had attended our
new school systems here in the states. The ones where they dont put
an emphasis on proper spelling anymore.

I'm an American, not a Brit (I just happen to know the British
spelling of the word), but I'll accept your apology anyway.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Ken;
Very interesting. I guess that I'm not the only one to be confused. )
Thanks for setting me straight.
Wes

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[Wesley Vogel]

'Was it Wilde or Shaw?'
http://www1c.btwebworld.com/quote-unquote/p0000149.htm

Well, I know now that it wasn't Churchill.

Wes

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

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Ken;
Very interesting. I guess that I'm not the only one to be confused.
) Thanks for setting me straight.

You're welcome.

 

[Guest]

i ate u

 

[Guest]

I agree. I upgraded from winXP Pro to RedHat 9 last spring, and have been very happy with it ;-)

 

[Guest]

"British" English (and "British" spelling) is used in virtually all English-speakin
countries, except the U.S. So there are really only two varities of "wheat". If yo
see American spelling used anywhere outside the U.S., it's probably due to automate
spelling checkers or Americans living abroad

Even the alphabet is different in the U.S. They changed the last letter of th
alphabet from "zed" to "zee" thinking it would be easier for children to lear
the alphabet if all the letters rhymed. Fat lot of good it did!

 

[Jim Macklin]

Bonnet=hood; trunk=boot; USA speaks, reads and writes
English while the UK uses the King's English.
In the English parliamentary practice, to "table" a measure
means to talk about it. take it off the table. But In the
USA, table means to put it on the table and not talk about
it.

Bloody describes a car wreck in the USA but is a curse/swear
word in the UK.

But lower classes in the UK are closer to the USA than
London.


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| "British" English (and "British" spelling) is used in
virtually all English-speaking
| countries, except the U.S. So there are really only two
varities of "wheat". If you
| see American spelling used anywhere outside the U.S., it's
probably due to automated
| spelling checkers or Americans living abroad.
|
| Even the alphabet is different in the U.S. They changed
the last letter of the
| alphabet from "zed" to "zee" thinking it would be easier
for children to learn
| the alphabet if all the letters rhymed. Fat lot of good it
did!

 

[David Candy]

My Office 97 Bookshelf Dictionary gives two meanings - wheat. It thinks colour is spelt that way but notes color also legal, esp in Nth America. It says spelled or spelt (and gives almost identical definition as below). (OE crashes if I paste from MS reference programs - always has on every OS and every OE version).

My big paper dictionary (it has a 13 long word title) gives two also, the above wheat one and how I use it. It makes no note of it NOT being a US word (and it does note British, Chiefly British (means us Commonwealth countries), or country specific (Americian, Australian, NZ - not seen any canadian spellings in any dictionary, ever). It's an "altternative (to what? ) past tense and past participle of spell".

Do canadians even have their own words?

Now I can put those glasses away and avoid paper things for a while longer.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, XP is horrible! Worst operating system. This thing has crashed on my so many times, and even deleted it's restore files! Very annoying. I'm downgrading to 2000 pro, which at least is stable, plus using NERO to burn CDs. There! Now it can do almost everything XP can do, but without the crashes. What a lousy OS XP is.

-Joey

 

[Guest]

I was thinking in terms of spelling, only. Of course every country has its own unique vocabulary, slang, etc. And there are many different dialects. But as far as spelling is concerned, I think there are really only two varieties, American and everyone else in the English-speaking world.

 

[hah!]

I have fewer problems with XP than I ever had with W2K and
I thought W2K was great. Never had a crash with XP on 30
PCs. Had a couple crashes with W2K but I really had to work
at it. You sound really stupid.

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Yeah, XP is horrible! Worst operating system. This thing

has crashed on my so many times, and even deleted it's
restore files! Very annoying. I'm downgrading to 2000 pro,
which at least is stable, plus using NERO to burn CDs.
There! Now it can do almost everything XP can do, but
without the crashes. What a lousy OS XP is.

 

[Guest]

all OS's crash from time to time, i get told all the time that linux doesnt crash as mcuh as windows, but to be fair it doesnt do as much either!!

Just a thought