User talk:Joshubr

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[edit] Canadian English

I have no doubt that kerfuffle is widely used in Canada, but I thought it was still current in British English as well. If your sources regard that word as a Canadianism, feel free to readd it---citing your sources. All of the words on that list have at least a citation (in most cases provided by yours truly); some have an entire article. (OK, maybe a few words are uncited but hey, I can't possibly keep an eye on that friggin' article 24/7.) Some issues are in fact more complex than they seem---for example, the call vs. phone thing is not just American vs. British (or Canadian, for that matter); that's why the vocabulary section could use some remodeling, so as to accommodate issues of relative frequency and whatnot. Plus, that "comparison" subsection is way too long and filled with tangents that have little to do with language per se. Speaking of which, a lot of those articles on the dialects of English are just gross. Scottish English is incomplete; Hiberno-English is unsourced; South African English is poor; Indian English is contradictory; Caribbean English is all but nonexistent; Philippine English and Malaysian English are speculative. Australian English and English English are not bad. But American English kicks some serious ass. (Possibly because I wrote more than half of it. :-)

The spelling note was supposed to be humorous. (Not humourous). Jack(Lumber) 19:19, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Centre at night.jpg

Image Copyright problem

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[edit] Duplicate images uploaded

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