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[chileno]

Originally Posted by laepelba

Well, I'm sure that if you talk to a true Brit, they would tell you that "spilt" is "proper". They believe that we Yanks have messed up the English language.

How could you?

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Elaina

some corrections......

Thank you for your corrections.

Sincerely yours.


I didn't place some words that you wrote in your corrections. I don't know your corrections seem very easy anyhow still I did some mistakes in my post.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by laepelba

Well, I'm sure that if you talk to a true Brit, they would tell you that "spilt" is "proper". They believe that we Yanks have messed up the English language.

The colonists didn't change everything. In fact, there are documented cases that we (in America) have retained some of the spellings used in the 18th century where the British have veered away.

Neither should point the finger at the other. There wasn't a standard in the early 18th century, but a British standard must have been used in 1769, when the KJV Bible (1611) underwent a 'modernization'. There were 24,000 documented changes, mostly spelling updates, made at that time.

Just for giggles, I looked at the KJV Bible to see which spelling (spilled or spilt) survived the modernization. To my surprise, both are found therein. So, even though a spelling standard existed, both spellings were allowed. Guess which one is predominant. It's spilled.

[laepelba]

Oh, Rusty - can't you just let me pick on my British friends and have some fun? Seriously ... thanks for the history lesson. I still like to think that they're speaking proper English and we're the ones having fun changing the language. Hasta la vista, baby!! (That's english now, right?)

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Rusty

The colonists didn't change everything. In fact, there are documented cases that we (in America) have retained some of the spellings used in the 18th century where the British have veered away.

Neither should point the finger at the other. There wasn't a standard in the early 18th century, but a British standard must have been used in 1769, when the KJV Bible (1611) underwent a 'modernization'. There were 24,000 documented changes, mostly spelling updates, made at that time.

Just for giggles, I looked at the KJV Bible to see which spelling (spilled or spilt) survived the modernization. To my surprise, both are found therein. So, even though a spelling standard existed, both spellings were allowed. Guess which one is predominant. It's spilled.

So interesting, when looked in that context. Thank you for sharing that one.

[CrOtALiTo]

Just it's very interesting because I always have thought that the language British and your are very different although are the same idiom named English. But they have different spellings and with different pronunciations.

Congratulation for your investigation.

You must look after much your language.

I do.